Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Conceivably we could address this in the filesystem without mucking other > > > things up. But I'd have thought the simplest damage-control would be to > > > detect this pattern in samba and to then use glibc's fallocate(). > > > > The advantage of detecting it in kernel would be that it would handle > > Linux applications that do this (I suspect there are some) too. > > Um, which applications do you suspect? So we can hunt down those user > space applications programmers and slap them silly? Or rather, > unsilly, since that there's no good reason to ever suspect that > writing a byte every 128k would result in a good allocation layout on disk?
Anything that uses glibc fallocate() ? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
