Hi!


> This is very nice.  No signs of fs corruption yet.  You mentioned that
> this could hurt the performance of other filesystem operations.  Can you
> elaborate on that?  

As I said. Linear reading of files will do few seeks that just were
not there in previous versions. Old ext2 reading such file means 0
seeks, now you need to seek for indirect block (but caching will help
you). I do not know how much degradation in means. 

> As drives get larger and larger, fsck times are going to become a bigger
> issue.  Can't wait for ext3 but if I don't run into a show stopper, this
> will be a standard patch for me, whether or not it gets included into
> the official kernel.

I do not know if I should attempt official kernel integration. I
probably can make it per mount option pretty easily.

								Pavel
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