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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: large files
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 08:19:02 -0700
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To: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
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Chris Mason wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:49, Bernd Schubert wrote:
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>>Unfortunality I even don't have an idea how to interprete those numbers.
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>Well, on 2.6, you've got one or more pdflush daemons that might
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>>>>Do you have any ideas how we could improve 2.4.x?
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>>>2.6.6-mm has a few key improvements.  There's less metadata
>>>fragmentation thanks to some block allocator fixes.  More importantly,
>>>during the rm, metadata blocks are read in 16 at a time instead of 1 at
>>>a time.  I'd be happy to give someone pointers on porting the metadata
>>>readahead bits back to 2.4.
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>>I certainly have neither the knowledge nor the time to do that.
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>I'd suggest contacting namesys.  Really all the patch needs is some
>reject / fuzz resolution and testing.
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>-chris
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Patch?  Tell me more please.;-)