Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:30:54 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT question |
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Bodo Eggert wrote:
> (*) This would allow fadvise_size(), too, which could reduce fragmentation > (and give an early warning on full disks) without forcing e.g. fat to > zero all blocks. OTOH, fadvise_size() would allow users to reserve the > complete disk space without his filesizes reflecting this.
Please clarify how this would interact with quota, and why it wouldn't allow someone to run me out of disk.
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