Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation

[Peter Foldiak]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Peter Foldiak wrote:
>
> > sub-file" corresponding to a key-range. Writing a chapter should change the
> > book that the chapter is part of. That is what would make it really valuable.
> > Of course it would have all sorts of implications (e.g. for metadata for each
> > part) that need to be thought about, but it could be done properly, I think.
> >    
>
> What happens if you read the first 10kB of a file,
> and one of the "chapters" behind your read cursor
> grows?
>
> Do you read part of the same data again when you
> continue reading?
>
> Does the read cursor automatically advance?
>  
You should probably continue where you left off .

> Your idea changes the way userspace expects files
> to behave...
>  
Yes, I know.
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