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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] various allocator optimizations
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:15:31 +0300
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To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
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Hello!

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:19:37AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
    
> 2) The  disk  driver  has  no  knowledge  of  the above filesystem and
>    its  files.  In  case  of several concurrent writes of lots smaller
>    files  the  fs  could  allow for caching them and write them out in
>    sequence instead of parallel. Space might be more efficiently used,

Hm, I thought that's what we have page cache for ;)

Bye,
    Oleg