Re: [Fwd: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr]

[Paul Barton-Davis]

>> 1) pre-allocation takes a *long* time. Allocating 24 203MB files on a
>>    clean ext2 partition of 18GB takes many, many minutes, for example.
>>    Presumably, the same overhead is being incurred when block
>>    allocation happens "on the fly".
>
>It is not the allocation which is taking ages, it's the actual
>writing of the data.  

Except that for preallocation, I only write one byte in every block,
so for a 203MB file, I only write 52K approximately (ext2 4K blocks).

--p