| To: | Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: howto preallocate to minimize fragmentation |
| From: | Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:04:55 -0700 |
| Cc: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, Ying-Hung Chen <ying@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Ho <andrewho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:10:00PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > Are we going to see this be part of posix_fallocate in glibc any > time soon? i did kernel patches and an attempt at the glibc part of it for i386 and amd64, it needs a cleanup and reposting though. right now there is only support for xfs and ext[23], im not sure if other fs's can provide anything > The patch would be fairly trivial and then let application > programmers use a standard interface that has a nice fallback in > case of non-XFS file systems. |
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