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Message-ID: <4FEC744F.6010901@ubuntu.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:12:15 -0400
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
CC: Fredrick <fjohnber@...o.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4_fallocate
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On 6/25/2012 3:33 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> There was a recent patch series "ext4: add an io-tree to track
> block allocation" that may improve the performance for your case of
> overwrite of uninitialized files, but it hasn't landed yet.
I'm confused. Why is writing to uninitialized extents slow, and why
would this help? If you have an uninitialized extent, then the blocks
are already allocated, just flagged as containing uninitialized data.
Writing to them should be no different than writing to initialized
extents, save for the step of clearing the uninitialized flag.
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