Re: Agressive selective pre-allocation

["Ragnar Kjørstad" <reiserfs@ragnark.vestdata.no>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:43:02AM -0500, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
> But the problem really is that apps don't actually "grow"these files but 
> instead rebuilds them.  Thus the file system sees a request to open a 
> new file and not to extend an existing one.  This would make tracking 
> the above parameters way beyond difficult.

That's definitively not true for logfiles. Neither do I think it's true
for mail deliviery. It may very well be true for some mail-clients when
the user deletes old emails, but if that is the case then the whole file
will be written at once and the original problem does not exist.



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Ragnar Kjørstad