>Seriously, if you create an ext2 filesystem and make one large file
>on it, you get something nice and big, allocated in 8MB or larger
>contiguous chunks, which you can seek, read and write into at your
>leisure. What advantage is there in actually denying the user
>extra functionality? There's nothing to _require_ the application
>to truncate the big contiguous file if it doesn't need to under
>any normal filesystem.
My point was to be able to create more than one file, and to guarantee
their contiguousness. If I try to do that on ext2, I have to do it right
after the filesystem is created, and I have to prevent any other files
from ever being created there.
But I take your point. More than that, I use ext2 right now. I'm just
trying to give myself the maximum breathing room when it comes to disk
i/o, and wondered if a "rawfs" made any sense.
--p
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