From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= Subject: Re: Agressive selective pre-allocation Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:09:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20021214030932.I2727@vestdata.no> References: <20021210074600.J26400@vestdata.no> <3DF61996.8050001@NightStorm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DF61996.8050001@NightStorm.com>; from bam@NightStorm.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:43:02AM -0500 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "Bruce A. Mallett" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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=20 > new file and not to extend an existing one. This would make tracking=20 > 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. --=20 Ragnar Kj=F8rstad