On Mon, 01 Dec 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote: > - do the applications writing to this file have any unusual IO pattern > (e.g. mmap IO, lots of write+truncate+write on the same file, etc) Vuze does a massive ammount of sparse writes. It can also be configured to pre-allocate space (either by creating an empty non-sparse file, or by telling the kernel that the file is expected to grow to size foo and to please pre-allocate that in the filesystem. I don't recall how this is done). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
