On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:00:32PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers > From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 04/27/2009 03:53 PM > >> >> 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 can truely only speak for XFS, but btrfs might be similar: > Ha. Ha. Ha. No. Sandeen can speak for XFS. kthnx. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
