From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Subject: Re: Ext4 allocation strategy
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:18:19 +0000 (UTC)
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torn5 <torn5 <at> shiftmail.org> writes:
> 
> So can you tell me something?

You might find the comments in fs/ext4/mballoc.c helpful.