On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:38:05PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > This is with the xfs block layout? > > Christoph, do we know anything about average or worst-case sizes for > that layout update field? The average is rather small and fits into a single page, the worst case is basically unlimited: (file size / block size) * sizeof(pnfs_block_extent) by the protocol, and about half that for a non-stupid client as it would merge consecutive blocks and only trigger something close to the worst case for a "block allocated, block hole, block allocated, ..." pattern. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
