From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] appending data to a mmap-ed file
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:48:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101217144850.GC3647@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aak5jkvg.fsf@frosties.localnet>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:36:35AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Or avoid the whole issue and make the file large enough to begin
> with. Thanks to sparse files you can create a huge file that only uses 1
> block on disk. Then you can mmap that and it will use up more disk space
> as you fill in data automatically.
Sure, if you have an upper limit. Neither works well on 32 bit
architectures where you're really limited for contiguous free address
space.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 11:31 Joel Reymont
2010-12-16 12:38 ` [Caml-list] " Jesper Louis Andersen
2010-12-16 13:13 ` Joel Reymont
2010-12-16 12:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-12-16 17:16 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-12-17 0:36 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-17 14:48 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2010-12-17 15:49 ` Joel Reymont
2010-12-17 19:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-18 9:56 ` Christophe Raffalli
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