Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:57:36 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems, kupdated bugfixes |
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
> A contiguous write doesn't cost anything much, so it could be major > win if the kernel could flush dirty buffers that are behind and after > the dirty block to be written. But this would nicely conflict with > allocate-on-flush ;)
On the contrary, when you have a bunch of small files to sync you just allocate them next to each other and flush them all at once ;)
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