From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
Cc: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:22:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030314122222.1b55e7ab.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y93haevn.fsf@lexa.home.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-13 11:26 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 16:23 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-03-13 19:34 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 3:04 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Steven Cole
2003-03-14 3:28 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 3:46 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Shawn
2003-03-14 3:51 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 3:56 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Robert Love
2003-03-14 13:31 ` 2.5.64-mm6 jlnance
2003-03-14 20:05 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 20:10 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Alex Tomas
2003-03-14 20:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-14 20:19 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Alex Tomas
2003-03-13 20:35 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Thomas Molina
2003-03-14 9:29 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Alexander Hoogerhuis
2003-03-14 11:55 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 8:38 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Alexander Hoogerhuis
2003-03-14 12:01 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Helge Hafting
2003-03-14 12:14 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 20:38 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Eli Carter
2003-03-14 20:53 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 22:01 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Eli Carter
2003-03-14 22:21 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
[not found] <20030313032615.7ca491d6.akpm@digeo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-13 13:36 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andi Kleen
2003-03-13 19:32 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 13:42 2.5.64-mm6 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-13 21:49 2.5.64-mm6 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-14 0:23 ` 2.5.64-mm6 Thomas Molina
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