Re: 2.5.64-mm6

[Andrew Morton]

Alex Tomas <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
> 
>  AM> [e-mail] wrote:
>  >> 
>  >> Andrew, I am not sure what you mean by this.  Are you saying that
>  >> the way ld accesses files causes the blocks on the disk to be
>  >> layed out poorly?  That is the only thing I can think of that
>  >> would get fixed by copying.
>  >> 
> 
>  AM> Exactly that.  ld seeks all over the file when adding new blocks
>  AM> to it, so with ext2 and ext3 (at least) there is poor
>  AM> correspondence between file offset and block indices.
> 
> 
> hmm. I thought delayed allocation should solve this problem. Isn't it?

Absolutely.  XFS shouldn't have this problem.

I have patches (against 2.5.7!) which get it all working for ext2
as well.