From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Ext3 online defrag
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:52:20 -0500
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To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
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David Chinner wrote:
> The allocation interface, OTOH, is anything but simple and is really
> a filesystem specific interface. Seems logical to me to separate
> the two. 

And ext[234] preallocation would be a very nice feature in its own right.

-Eric