Dave Chinner put forth on 10/19/2010 6:42 PM: > I've explained how allocsize works, and that speculative allocation > gets truncated away whenteh file is closed. Hence is the application > is doing: > > open() > seek(EOF) > write() > close() I don't know if it changes anything in the sequence above, but Dovecot uses mmap i/o. As I've said, I'm not a dev. Just thought this could/might be relevant. Would using mmap be compatible with physical preallocation? -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
