On 23.07.2010 15:50, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:43 +0200 > Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> écrivait: > > > Only for writes, reads are for practically unaffected. > > Sequential writes may be relatively unaffected too; if you write > sequentially a couple of megabytes you'll have only a couple of > additional blocks at the beginning and end of operation. What MAY hurt, also for large writes, are the meta-data operations while writing the file. (e.g. the file-size changes, journaling ...) But i haven't tested that and can't say for sure how much that hurts. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
