Re: reiser4 resize

["Alexey Polyakov" <alexey.polyakov@gmail.com>]

On 9/20/06, £ukasz Mierzwa <prymitive@pcserwis.net> wrote:

> It's been proven that flushes are doing much more job then they should.
> Not so long ago someone send a trace of block device io accesess during
> reiser4 work and someone anylized it and said that some files or parts of
> file where written over and over 200 times or so.  Bittottent downloads on
> a few months old filesystem that had been used often just shows a week
> spot in reiser4, while downloading files with azureus with only 64KB of
> data per second I got disk lid on almost all the time, swithcing to
> rtorrent helped as it does not seem to call fsync ( I think I disabled
> fsync in azureus).

Ah, I see, if bittorrent calls fsync often, it's no wonder that
reiser4 behaves badly. I had to preload libnosync for some of my
programs that do fsync to avoid this.

-- 
Alexey Polyakov