Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 19:15:18 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: O_TRUNC problem on a full filesystem |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:24:10AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> How have you done the ext3 preallocation code?
Preallocation is currently disabled in ext3. Eventually I'll probably get it going by adding a journal prepare-commit callback to allow the filesystem to flush preallocation before committing.
> One way to do it would be > to only mark the blocks as used in the in-memory copy of the block bitmap > and not write that to disk (we keep 2 copies of the block bitmap, IIRC).
Indeed; I'd need to keep 3 copies to make that work. The state machine just gets even uglier. :-) I thought about it and I might still end up going that route.
> Did you ever benchmark ext2 with and without preallocation to see if it > made any difference? No point in doing extra work if there is no benefit.
The point is not just performance, but also cpu cost (which preallocation definitely wins on) and on fragmentation if you have multiple writers in the same directory.
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