Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> ext3 _should_ handle this case fairly well nowadays - I thought we fixed that.
> However it would probably benefit from having the size of the block reservation
> window increased - use ioctl(EXT3_IOC_SETRSVSZ).  That way, each file gets a
> decent-sized hunk of disk "reserved" for its ongoing appending.  Other
> files won't come in and intermingle their blocks with it.

How big of a chore would it be, to use this code to implement 
i_op->fallocate() for ext3, I wonder?

	Jeff


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