[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] cifs: make cifs_writepages use longer timeout

[Steve French]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:15:39 -0500
> Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When file is extended in write we could save the (previous) offset in
>> cifs_file struct ...?  And then increase the saved offset to match the
>> last write (past previous end of file).   Whenever we attempt a write
>> more than a few megabytes past the saved range, we can use long op?
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> Something like that might work. Basically I think we need to track the
> current size as reported by the server separate from the i_size.
>
> It's probably best suited to be in the CIFS_I struct rather than the
> open file info. After a successful write past that value we'd update it.

Yes ... CIFS_I (not cifs_file) is better  :)

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Thanks,

Steve