Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers

[Florian Festi]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
>   - rpm? (file installation and/or db files?)

The rpmdb is a bunch of db4 files. In don't think I want to interfere with 
the db4 engine...

I am not really sure whether preallocation offers that much benefit for file 
installation. May be if there is a parallel process also writing to the disk 
heavily - but such processes should probably have their own partition/disk. 
Would preallocation make sense for tar?

Let's ask the other way round: What are the costs of preallocation for - say 
2M files with 50GB overall content?

Florian