Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
>
> > I think it's probably better to just lump all the root-reserved blocks
> > into as few blockgroups as possible.
>
> I might disagree here. One of the reasons for having the reserved blocks
> is to prevent fragmentation, and not necessarily to reserve space for root.
> For the lots of small files cases it makes more sense to leave free space
> in each group to prevent fragmentation at the group level.
Alex's approach effectively makes every blockgroup a little bit smaller. I
don't expect it will improve fragmentation effects. Not sure...
> ...
> We could also say that for the purpose of allocating new files in a directory,
> anything more than 95% full is "full" and the inode should be allocated in
> a different group regardless of where the parent is. It may be that the
> Orlov allocator already has such a heuristic, but I think that is a different
> discussion.
Yes, both find_group_other() and find_group_orlov() do things like that.
But only in 2.5, or in 2.4 with Ted's backport patches. find_group_other()
in 2.4 forgets to look at the free block count, which is rather sad.
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