Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-mm6 | From | Alex Tomas <> | Date | 14 Mar 2003 23:10:20 +0300 |
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>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
AM> jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: >> >> Andrew, I am not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that >> the way ld accesses files causes the blocks on the disk to be >> layed out poorly? That is the only thing I can think of that >> would get fixed by copying. >>
AM> Exactly that. ld seeks all over the file when adding new blocks AM> to it, so with ext2 and ext3 (at least) there is poor AM> correspondence between file offset and block indices.
hmm. I thought delayed allocation should solve this problem. Isn't it?
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