On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:34:05AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > Is there any chance we can use Jens Axboes "fcache"? > Info e.g. at: > http://en.opensuse.org/Fcache-howto That really needs to get into the upstream kernel before I'm comfortable enabling it in Fedora. > I don't understand why nobody seems interested in this. It seems like a > much nicer solution than readahead of files. In the current version it > has to have a separate device for mirroring the blocks, but I can't > think its that hard to create a physically linear file on an ext3 > filesystem ext3's block allocation policy seems a little.. suboptimal in some cases. It doesn't seem particularly difficult to end up with fragmented files, especially with large ones. > , lock it in place and use that. (Isn't this basically what > extents are?) ext3 doesn't have extents, and ext4 continues to drag its heals. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
