Re: unexpected high fragmentation, any ideas?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Steve Lord wrote:
> >           This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully
> >           functional, and may cause serious problems.
> It is the same thing, that comment has been there for several years
> and is not going to go away unless someone tries to use it in
> earnest. I don't think the actual code is as bad as that comment
> suggests. Realtime on Irix was used by lots of folks, its the linux
> specific parts which may be need a little help.
Hmm I probably wrote that comment ;-)  At one point realtime had a bad 
habit of clobbering your superblock when IO went to the wrong device... 
but I fixed that a couple years ago.  At one point realtime -was- 
working fine.
If you'd like to try it, and have any concerns, just give it a whirl on 
a disposable filesystem.  Anything that goes wrong will be contained to 
that filesystem, so no real worries.
-Eric