Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink |
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > > >Sure. However, I don't think it should come as any surprise to anybody > >that trying to write to two different points in the same file is a bad > >idea. > > Databases?
They uniformly (as far as I know) preallocate all the data blocks.
Exactly to avoid the block layout issue - they want the data blocks as contiguous as possible.
Linus
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