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Re: clearing 'flag unwritten extents'

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: clearing 'flag unwritten extents'
From: Roger Willcocks <willcor@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:13:19 +0000
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On 11/13/05, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:48:48PM +0000, Roger Willcocks wrote:
> > AIUI, the 'flag unwritten extents' option allows non-root users to
> > preallocate unwritten extents (root can always create them). Clearing
> > the option would just prevent the creation of new unwritten extents.
>
> It does more than just that - in xfs_bmapi it changes the way
> extents are handled - look for XFS_SB_VERSION_HASEXTFLGBIT in
> xfs_bmap.c in particular.

But only for realtime extents - and I don't have any of those...

--
Roger


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