Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932319AbWHWCt6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:49:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932321AbWHWCt6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:49:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47259 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932319AbWHWCt5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:49:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:49:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Clay Barnes Cc: Jeff Mahoney , David Masover , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS List , Mike Benoit Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching Message-Id: <20060822194946.7411112f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060823024634.GK9112@HAL_5000D.tc.ph.cox.net> References: <44EB1484.2040502@suse.com> <44EB23D9.9000508@slaphack.com> <44EB28EC.50802@suse.com> <44EB684C.2090206@slaphack.com> <44EB7518.5010204@suse.com> <20060822171133.72692542.akpm@osdl.org> <20060823024634.GK9112@HAL_5000D.tc.ph.cox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 14 On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:46:34 -0700 Clay Barnes wrote: > Perhaps I mis-recall, but shouldn't delayed writes (or something along > those lines) cause a case where two files are being incrementally > written rare? If we did delayed allocation, yes. But we generally don't. (Exceptions: XFS, reiser4, ext4, ext2 prototype circa 2001). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/