Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:13:15 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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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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