On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:51:28PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote:
I want to eliminate the COW feature on all of my OS files. It is a nice
feature for user files, but I don't see a clear benefit for the actual OS
files. And I suspect that COW induced fragmentation is causing or
aggravating
Thanks, I would never have understood the phrase it is undefined when
the blocks assigned to the file will be fully stable without your
further explanation. The man page could be far clearer in its choice of
wording. At this point I have also discovered that setting the nocow
flag also
I want to eliminate the COW feature on all of my OS files. It is a nice
feature for user files, but I don't see a clear benefit for the actual
OS files. And I suspect that COW induced fragmentation is causing or
aggravating problems with my system including the boot open_ctree
problem. I
