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Re: howto preallocate to minimize fragmentation

To: Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: howto preallocate to minimize fragmentation
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:04:55 -0700
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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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