Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763071AbZDBWNf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:13:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756776AbZDBWN1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:13:27 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33641 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755878AbZDBWN0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:13:26 -0400 Message-ID: <49D5387B.2080200@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:13:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: David Rees , Janne Grunau , Lennart Sorensen , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 References: <20090325183011.GN32307@mit.edu> <20090326171148.9bf8f1ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326174704.cd36bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326182519.d576d703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090401210337.GB3797@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090402110532.GA5132@aniel> <20090402090912.cac200bb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <72dbd3150904020933y515c7185p5726323c430c339b@mail.gmail.com> <20090402095139.c2ff4f06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090402095139.c2ff4f06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > ext3 _should_ handle this case fairly well nowadays - I thought we fixed that. > However it would probably benefit from having the size of the block reservation > window increased - use ioctl(EXT3_IOC_SETRSVSZ). That way, each file gets a > decent-sized hunk of disk "reserved" for its ongoing appending. Other > files won't come in and intermingle their blocks with it. How big of a chore would it be, to use this code to implement i_op->fallocate() for ext3, I wonder? Jeff -- 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/