On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:50:02PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: >> >> Would a plain old fallocate() do the trick, or does it actually need >> zeros written to it? > > It would be better to write zeros to it, so we aren't measuring the > cost of the unwritten->written conversion. At the risk of beating a dead horse, how hard would it be to defer this part until writeback? --Andy _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
