Re: stable xfs

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:19:38PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:

> what will be the side effect about this scattering?

there is a desire in some cases to have files in the same directory
close to each other on disk

> one thing i worry about fsr is when do fsr and some power loss
> events happen, can xfs handle this well?

yes, fsr create a temporary file, unlinks it, copies the extents over,
and does an atomic swap-extents-if-nothing-changed operation