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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 01:28:32 +0900
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

>> Maybe possible, but you really think on usual case just blocking is
>> better?
>   Define usual case... As Christoph noted, we don't currently have a real
> practical case where blocking would matter (since frequent rewrites are
> rather rare). So defining what is usual when we don't have a single real
> case is kind of tough ;)

OK. E.g. usual workload on desktop, but FS like ext2/fat.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

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