How to pre-allocate files for sequential access?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

On 04.04.2012 16:57, troby wrote:

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I think the easiest solution would be to create the said number of 
files, but with dummy-filenames.

Then write a script das does a xfs_bmap on each file, sorts them and 
then renames the dummy-files to the correct-name in the order they are 
on disc.





Bis denn

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