Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

Andi Kleen
2007-05-02T11:24:06Z

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.

-Andi