On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:30:00AM -0600, Geoffrey Wehrman wrote: > Glad you were able to understand what I meant. Something I didn't think > of earlier though: What happens when I try to use an 8 GB on a system > with only 4 GB of memory? I'm not really worried about this pathological > case, but I do wonder what the effects will be of allocating what could > be significant quantities of memory in .aio_write. I think for large regions we'd be much better off to only zero the blocks on disk, not in-memory - for example like the code in xfs_zero_remaining_bytes does. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
