Q: about xfs pre-allocation

LA Walsh xfs at tlinx.org
Tue Dec 10 22:12:13 CST 2013



On 12/10/2013 5:46 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:06:24AM -0800, LA Walsh wrote:
>> Could someone comment on my [mis-]understanding in regards to
>> what the note below said 
> 
> It's mostly wrong information.
> 
> Just a suggestion: take anything advice given about XFS on lists
> other than this one with a grain of salt. There's lots of people out
> there who *think* they know how XFS works, but there's very few who
> actually know how XFS works.
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Well, even thinking I had a clue, I wanted to check here, cuz, things
change and I might give out totally wrong info... yuck...




I appreciate your expertise and tireless[?] efforts on a great FS.

=====
Brian,
Thanks  for the different detail and emphasis...
Sometimes I need to read something in multiple ways to fully get it
(assuming I 'get' it...)





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