Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:05:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: ext3 reservation question. |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > I am worried about a case, where multiple threads writing to > different parts of same file - there by each thread thrashing > reservation window (since each one has its own goal).
Didn't we have a patch two years ago or something floating around with doing lazy (delayed) block allocation on ext2 - doing the actual allocation only when writing the thing out? Then you shouldn't have this problem under any normal load, hopefully.
Or was it just some idle discussion that I remember?
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