I might give this a go...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Scott [mailto:nathans@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:59 AM
> To: Scott Fagg; Steve Lord
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: realtime ( was RE: unexpected high
> fragmentation, any ideas? )
>
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > o In order to get a file to live on the realtime
> subvolume, you have
> > to use a special ioctl call on the file descriptor after it is
> > opened and before any space is allocated.
>
> Actually, theres an easy way to do this now which doesn't require
> applications to know about realtime volumes - a directory can have
> the "realtime-inherit" flag set on it (e.g. via xfs_io) and files
> subsequently created in that directory will automatically be marked
> as realtime (at creation time).
>
> I would be surprised if there aren't one or two bugs remaining in
> the realtime port for Linux, as Steve pointed out, but there is a
> decent foundation with years of testing on IRIX for the core code,
> so it shouldn't be too hard to knock out any remaining issues (if
> someone wanted to give it a go..)
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
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