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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@valinux.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: O_SYNC patches for 2.4.0-test1-ac11
Date: 09 Jun 2000 14:53:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ya4ettbk.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Stephen C. Tweedie"'s message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2000 22:36:32 +0100"

Sorry for the separate mail:

"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> writes:

> If I don't preallocate the file, then even fdatasync is slow, [...]

This might be a good argument to implement posix_fallocate() in the
kernel.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-06-09 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-09 21:36 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-09 21:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-06-09 21:55   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-09 21:53 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2000-06-09 21:58   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-12 13:16     ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-12 13:24       ` Jamie Lokier

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