Hi, On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:41 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > There is another mechanism ext3 could potentially use, wherein it > walks the whole inode in advance of the truncate and creates a > (potentially) very large transaction handle to do the bitmap updates > in a single shot (and also reducing the amount of IO needed for an > unlink by 96%), but nobody has ever cared enough about it to work on > implementing this. Trouble is, there's no guarantee that that transaction would actually fit into the journal. Most of the time it will, but if it doesn't, then we deadlock or risk data corruption. --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
