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Allocating uninitialized file blocks

Allocating uninitialized file blocks

Posted May 1, 2012 5:50 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
Parent article: Allocating uninitialized file blocks

It sounds like EXT4 and any other modern filesystems with this problem need a more robust form of unwritten extent tracking similar to that used by XFS.

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