Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ?
> > >
> > I put all the code into CVS, and Yura is making the official patch now.
> 
> Since 2.4.0 final should fix a few i/o performance issues
> (particuarly under heavy write loads), a quick few ext2 vs.
> reiserfs benchmarks would make very interesting reading ;-)

An easy way to gain a performance edge on ext2 would
be to do proper write clustering in the reiserfs
->writepage() function...  </hint>

regards,

Rik
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