Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:22:22 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-mm6 |
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Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru> wrote: > > >>>>> 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?
Absolutely. XFS shouldn't have this problem.
I have patches (against 2.5.7!) which get it all working for ext2 as well.
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