* Brian Foster: > Although speculative preallocation can lead to reports of excess space > usage, the preallocated space is not permanent unless explicitly made so > via fallocate or a similar interface. How does an explicit allocation with posix_fallocate interact with speculative preallocation? Does it disable it? I see rather dramatic fragmentation of the systemd journal when it is stored on XFS, and it calls posix_fallocate before writing data to the file. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs