On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> (moved to linux-fsdevel)
>
> SGI's XFS white paper[1] describes
>
> > XFS delays allocation of user data blocks when possible to
> > make blocks more contiguous; holding them in the buffer cache.
> > This allows XFS to make extents large without requiring the user
> > to specify extent size, and without requiring a filesystem
> > reorganizer to fix the extent sizes after the fact. This also
> > reduces the number of writes to disk and extents used for a file.
>
> Is this sort of manipulation possible with the existing buffer cache?
AFAICS it is possible with the 2.3 page cache.
