On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> When I saw you put in the if (PageDirty) -->writepage and related code
> over the last couple of weeks I was wondering if you realize how close
> we are to having generic deferred file writing in the VFS. I took some
> time today to code this little hack and it comes awfully close to doing
> the job. However, *** Warning, do not run this on a machine you care
> about, it will mess it up ***.
>
> The advantages of deferred file writing are pretty obvious. Right now
> we are deferring just the writeout of data to the disk, but we can also
> defer the disk mapping, so that metadata blocks don't have to stay
> around in cache waiting for data blocks to get mapped into them one at
> a time - a whole group can be done in one flush.
Except that we've got file-expanding writes outside of ->i_sem. Thanks, but
no thanks.
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