From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>
Cc: Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@Namesys.COM>
Subject: Re: Reserved Blocks
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:03:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020926120318.A10346@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020926095942.Z32363@noris.de>
Hello!
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:59:42AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > > Blocks (possibly more than one) may also be allocated by opening the file,
> > I'd agree if you replace "opening" with "creating".
> Thanks for the correction -- of course.
But one can use existing file.
Notice my original example used '>>' shell redirector.
> > > especially if it happens to have a long name.
> > It cannot be longer than 255 bytes anyway.
> On the other hand, you can write a nontrivial amount of bytes to the file
> before Reiserfs truly allocates a block for them. (Unless you disable
> that, of course.)
This is not true for reiserfs in 2.4/2.5 kernels.
There first plain block is allocated and on file close it is converted
to the in-tree "direct item" if possible.
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-16 10:27 Reserved Blocks Sam Vilain
2002-09-16 10:32 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-16 10:48 ` Nikita Danilov
[not found] ` <20020916125116.B8E96297C@hofmann.snowcra.sh>
2002-09-16 13:15 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-16 13:41 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 18:07 ` Paul Jarc
2002-09-26 6:19 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-26 6:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2002-09-26 7:02 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-26 7:59 ` Matthias Urlichs
2002-09-26 8:03 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2002-09-26 8:05 ` Matthias Urlichs
[not found] ` <15749.55656.692129.840162@laputa.namesys.com>
2002-09-16 14:00 ` Sam Vilain
2002-09-16 14:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] ` <200209161713.52352.russell@coker.com.au>
2002-09-16 15:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-16 15:44 ` Russell Coker
2002-09-16 16:23 ` Sam Vilain
2002-09-16 16:43 ` Russell Coker
2002-09-16 16:14 ` Sam Vilain
2002-09-16 16:48 ` Russell Coker
[not found] ` <200209161651.g8GGpKM4005169@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
2002-09-17 17:39 ` Sam Vilain
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