From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q35LwAkQ077489 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:58:10 -0500 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (enyo.dsw2k3.info [195.71.86.239]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id l31Q4A4T8VD6YNFJ (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:57:55 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: How to pre-allocate files for sequential access? Message-ID: <20120405215755.GA18725@citd.de> References: <33564834.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <33564834.post@talk.nabble.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: troby Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.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 -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs