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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: troby <Thorn.Roby@harlandfs.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate files for sequential access?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:57:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120405215755.GA18725@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33564834.post@talk.nabble.com>

On 04.04.2012 16:57, troby wrote:

...

I think the easiest solution would be to create the said number of 
files, but with dummy-filenames.

Then write a script das does a xfs_bmap on each file, sorts them and 
then renames the dummy-files to the correct-name in the order they are 
on disc.





Bis denn

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 23:57 How to pre-allocate files for sequential access? troby
2012-04-05 15:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-04-05 21:57 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2012-04-05 22:40   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-04-06  7:06 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-10 19:12 ` troby

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