From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbWEWAmX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 20:42:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751201AbWEWAmX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 20:42:23 -0400 Received: from cyrus.iparadigms.com ([64.140.48.8]:24301 "EHLO cyrus.iparadigms.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbWEWAmX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 20:42:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44725A67.6090505@iparadigms.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:42:15 -0700 From: fitzboy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matheus Izvekov CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tuning for large files in xfs References: <447209A8.2040704@iparadigms.com> <305c16960605221530h68e8e3c5s849eb66f4881593e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <305c16960605221530h68e8e3c5s849eb66f4881593e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matheus Izvekov wrote: > > Why use a flesystem with just one file?? Why not use the device node > of the partition directly? I am not sure what you mean, could you elaborate?