On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:15:05PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > When we're appending an extent to the end of a file and the index > block is full, don't split the index block into two half-full index > blocks because this leaves us with under utilized index blocks, at > least in the fallocate case. Instead, copy the last extent from the > full block into the new block. This isn't perfect utilization, but > there's a lot of work involved in teaching extent.c to be able to goto > a nonexistent node in a newly allocated (and empty) extent block. > > This patch does not fix the general problem of keeping the extent tree > balanced. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks. - Ted -- 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
