On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:03:10PM -0400, Benji York wrote: > Paul Winkler wrote: > >Our experiments suggest that ext2, ext3, > >and reiserfs optimize for sparse files so there is no such guarantee. > >AFAICT from some quick googling and wikipediaing, the same is true for > >NTFS, XFS, JFS, ZFS. I suspect we've accounted for the majority of the > >production Zope installations in the world. > > In that case it would seem better to just remove the ineffectual code > altogether.
Well, maybe. "some quick googling and wikipediaing" should be taken only for what it is :) If I understand this stuff correctly, the code in question on a filesystem that *doesn't* have the sparse file optimization would equate to "write N null bytes to this file as fast as possible." True? -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
