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/
