Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:04:11 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:17651 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:04:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:04:50 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , Steve Lord Subject: Re: [patch] delayed disk block allocation Message-ID: <20020304050450.GF353@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Phillips , Andrew Morton , lkml , Steve Lord In-Reply-To: <3C7F3B4A.41DB7754@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:08:54AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > The main disconnect there is sub-page sized writes, you will bundle together > young and old 1K buffers. Since it's getting harder to find a 1K blocksize > filesystem, we might not care. Please don't do that. Hopefully, once this is in, 1k blocks will work much better. There are many cases where people work with lots of small files, and using 1k blocks is bad enough, 4k would be worse. Also, with dhash going into ext2/3 lots of tiny files in one dir will be feasible and comparible with reiserfs. - 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/