Boot poster challenge

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:28:43AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
[cut defrag method]
> We could expect filesystems to allocate the new blocks (data and possibly
> metadata) more or less sequentially on disk. What would led the filesystem
> code to not be sequential (most of the time assuming a single block device
> underneath) ?

Here is an article on the topic.  Do we have ext3 block reservation in
FC kernels?

http://lwn.net/Articles/81357/