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Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management

Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management

Posted Mar 16, 2009 10:54 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management by MathFox
Parent article: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management

Would that apply even if the blocks for the log were reserved in advance and their location known to the kernel?


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Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management

Posted Mar 16, 2009 10:55 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I will answer my own question - presumably yes, because the kernel can't assume that the filesystem does a simple block to disk mapping.

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