On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:14 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > 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. But nobody seems to be interested at all in it, not upstream, nor everyone working on hacks like preload. I just think that is strange. > 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. Maybe one could do the allocation manually for the fcache a file and then mark the blocks so they won't be moved? This can be done at install time and doesn't need generic extents support. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
