Re: [fuse-devel] large_write like large_read

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> The large_read option is a truly wonderful thing.  I'm actually on a
> 2.6 kernel so the option isn't needed any longer, but the idea is the
> same: fuse reads a large block of data instead of multiple small ones.
> This is a huge performance boost for my filesystem.
> 
> I'd like to do a "large_write", so the filesystem can benefit there as
> well.  I can do this in the filesystem code, of course, but before I
> do, is there an easy way to do this within fuse?  It seems like it
> would be a generally useful thing.

Actually it's quite easy to do in your filesystem.  Just allocate a
big buffer on open(), stick it in fi->fh, and fill it in write() until
full.  OK maybe it's a bit more complex, but not much.

Miklos