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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Contiguous file sequences
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:42:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009251142.35467@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9A6298.106@sandeen.net>


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On Mittwoch, 22. September 2010 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> preallocation of each image before writing would help make it more
> likely that each image is itself contiguous (but again this is not
> -guaranteed-)
 
If all images were 1-2MB large, and if there is no parallel create, but 
all images are copied after each other, wouldn't the mount option 
"allocsize=2M" be sufficient to ensure pics are contigous? I guess XFS 
would place them behind each other on disk, or why should there be gaps 
between?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-25  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 11:01 Contiguous file sequences Daire Byrne
2010-09-22 20:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-24 10:43   ` Daire Byrne
2010-09-27  4:08     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-27 16:30       ` Daire Byrne
2010-09-27 18:35         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-09-28  1:16         ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-27 20:56       ` Roger Willcocks
2010-09-25  9:42   ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
2010-09-22 20:50 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-09-22 22:36   ` Dave Chinner

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