Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Apr 27 21:18:54 UTC 2009


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Subject: Re: Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Date: 04/27/2009 03:53 PM

> 
> You're missing the point here, I think.
> 
> Try downloading a large (multi-gigabyte) torrent on ext4 or xfs or
> btrfs; see what the resulting file layout looks like if your client does
> not preallocate.  Now use a client that preallocates the space and try
> again.  Calling fallocate() first for the full file size will help on
> all these filesystems (well, TBH, I have not tested it on btrfs).
> 
> If there are well-defined interfaces to give hints to the filesystem
> about the ultimate state of a file, it's a nice feature, not a bug.
> 
> Sure, filesystems should do the best they can in the absence of hints,
> but performing well (or better) _with_ a hint is not indicative of a bug.
> 


I apologize. I'm a rambling idiot. Please carry on without me.




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