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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29
Andrew Morton wrote:
> ext3 _should_ handle this case fairly well nowadays - I thought we fixed that.
> However it would probably benefit from having the size of the block reservation
> window increased - use ioctl(EXT3_IOC_SETRSVSZ). That way, each file gets a
> decent-sized hunk of disk "reserved" for its ongoing appending. Other
> files won't come in and intermingle their blocks with it.

How big of a chore would it be, to use this code to implement
i_op->fallocate() for ext3, I wonder?

Jeff




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