Re: Testing ext4 persistent preallocation patches for 64 bit features

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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:25:50AM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:18 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > c) Do I need to put some hack in the filesystem code for above (to
> > allocate >32 bit physical block numbers) ?
> I had a ext3 hack patch before to allow application specify which block
> group is the targeted block allocation group,using ioctl command, so to
> allocate >32 bit physical block numbers it just set the target block
> group beyond 2**(32-15) = 2**17. patch is below..

Thanks for the patch! 

> BTW, have you considered
> - move the preallocation code in ioctl to a seperate function, and call
> that function from ioctl? That way we could easily switch to
> posix_falloc later.

OK.

> - Test preallocation with mapped IO?

I haven't done that yet. Will test it out too. Thanks!

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Regards,
Amit Arora
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