Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> 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?

Anything that uses glibc fallocate() ?

-Andi