From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E137FD6 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:12:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BF5304067 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ishtar.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id WcmcxJobRWGkohY6 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id rBB4CCsZ056916 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:12:14 -0800 Message-ID: <52A7E61D.3040900@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:12:13 -0800 From: LA Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Q: about xfs pre-allocation References: <52A75820.9090004@tlinx.org> <20131211014638.GG10988@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20131211014638.GG10988@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs-oss On 12/10/2013 5:46 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:06:24AM -0800, LA Walsh wrote: >> Could someone comment on my [mis-]understanding in regards to >> what the note below said > > It's mostly wrong information. > > Just a suggestion: take anything advice given about XFS on lists > other than this one with a grain of salt. There's lots of people out > there who *think* they know how XFS works, but there's very few who > actually know how XFS works. --- Well, even thinking I had a clue, I wanted to check here, cuz, things change and I might give out totally wrong info... yuck... I appreciate your expertise and tireless[?] efforts on a great FS. ===== Brian, Thanks for the different detail and emphasis... Sometimes I need to read something in multiple ways to fully get it (assuming I 'get' it...) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs