linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching

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Message-Id: <20060822194946.7411112f.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:49:46 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Clay Barnes <clay.barnes@...il.com>
Cc:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>,
	Mike Benoit <ipso@...ppymail.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap
 searching

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:46:34 -0700
Clay Barnes <clay.barnes@...il.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I mis-recall, but shouldn't delayed writes (or something along 
> those lines) cause a case where two files are being incrementally
> written rare?

If we did delayed allocation, yes.  But we generally don't.  (Exceptions:
XFS, reiser4, ext4, ext2 prototype circa 2001).
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