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>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu 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?

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