[jcifs] memory-mapped files
Michael B Allen
ioplex at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 10:47:21 MDT 2009
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:25 PM, whee<whee at tut.by> wrote:
>
> Is it possible using jcifs package to map files on server side into memory of
> the client side?
>
> In core java to map part of file into memory on single computer code would
> be:
> ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(length);
> try {
> File f = new File(path);
> RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(f, "r");
> FileChannel rCh = raf.getChannel();
> buf = rCh.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, offset, length);
> rCh.close();
> raf.close();
> } catch (Exception e) {
> System.err.println(e);
> }
>
> the realization of map method(mmap function on unix-based os and
> CreateFileMapping+MapViewOfFile on windows os) of FileChannel Class decrease
> the time of access to large blocks of file and so is very usefull.
You might be able to extend SmbRandomAccessFile to return a
FileChannel that implements the mapping behavior required by
ByteBuffer. But it would not improve access time since it would of
course not be doing real memory mapping.
Mike
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