* Bradley C. Kuszmaul: > The question I have: What will happen to the performance of other > threads doing read() and write() operations? Will hole-punching slow > down the other read() and write() operations running in other threads? Assuming that hole-punching creates extents (not sure if it does, you can check with filefrag or other tools), you might experience a slowdown during open(), when the entire list of extents is read from disk. I once was a heavy Berkeley DB user and had files with dozens of gigabytes containing hundreds of thousands of extents, and open() times in the order of minutes were not unusual with a cold cache and other concurrent read activities from the same RAID device. But these files grew over time—perhaps hole punching results in better locality of the extent data, so that reading it doesn't take so much time in your case. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
