How to pre-allocate files for sequential access?

[Eric Sandeen]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms at citd.de> wrote:

> On 04.04.2012 16:57, troby wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> 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.
> 

Inode64 will likely keep them in order without needing tricks like that.

Eric