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The Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1

Posted Aug 9, 2010 14:46 UTC (Mon) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: The Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1 by theraphim
Parent article: The 2010 Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1

Maybe duplicate the file descriptor and monitor the offset?

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Posted Aug 9, 2010 21:24 UTC (Mon) by theraphim (subscriber, #25955) [Link]

Here you assume you are doing linear copy in a single copying thread. There are cases in which this assumption is untrue, for example, when copying large file from one storage cluster to another you may want to copy chunks in parallel between the chunk servers.