Eric Sandeen wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:19:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> I'd appreciate any and all testing, benchmarking & feedback that people >>> would be willing to do. Just getting more exposure in real-life >>> scenarios would be great. >>> >>> As with any filesystem, I wouldn't put your only copy of your most >>> precious data on it - use good sense about backups etc - but ext4 has >>> made good progress since F9 on both stability and performance, so have >>> at it! >> Persistent pre-allocation[1] is something that virt-manager could >> really use when it has to allocate multi-gigabyte images. A few >> questions about this feature though: >> >> (a) Is it exposed as a syscall anywhere? I don't see it in the header >> files of my Rawhide system (2.6.27). > > Hm, I probably need to get the fallocate.h header file included if it's > not so that sys_fallocate can be used directly, Ah, it should be there: [root@inode ~]# rpm -ql kernel-headers | grep falloc /usr/include/linux/falloc.h -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
