From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Cabot, Mason B" <mason.b.cabot@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:04:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502160436.GA19442@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73slafxvor.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >
> > Conceivably we could address this in the filesystem without mucking other
> > things up. But I'd have thought the simplest damage-control would be to
> > detect this pattern in samba and to then use glibc's fallocate().
>
> The advantage of detecting it in kernel would be that it would handle
> Linux applications that do this (I suspect there are some) too.
Um, which applications do you suspect? So we can hunt down those user
space applications programmers and slap them silly? Or rather,
unsilly, since that there's no good reason to ever suspect that
writing a byte every 128k would result in a good allocation layout on disk?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 20:43 Ext3 vs NTFS performance Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-01 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 12:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 16:04 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-05-02 18:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 19:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 16:16 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 18:08 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-05-02 19:34 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 20:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 22:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 3:54 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-05-02 15:46 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 15:44 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 19:46 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 0:15 ` David Chinner
2007-05-03 12:57 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 21:14 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-03 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-04 8:12 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 14:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 15:49 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-04 18:41 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-05 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-06 20:59 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-04 12:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-04 19:40 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-04 18:56 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-04 19:52 ` Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-07 14:31 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-12 23:47 ` Update: " Cabot, Mason B
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-03 3:51 Al Boldi
2007-05-05 3:13 Xu CanHao
2007-05-05 13:45 ` Theodore Tso
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[not found] ` <8huGm-2W4-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-05 22:25 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-06 5:04 ` Xu CanHao
2007-05-06 1:48 Albert Cahalan
[not found] <8gShI-3hY-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h1bh-8sG-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h2Al-280-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8hW9y-2Lp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-07 11:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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