Making FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together
Making FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together
Posted Feb 25, 2011 16:32 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Making FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together by razb
Parent article: Making FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together
Delayed allocation is a really useful technique to (among other things) keep fragmentation down and increase the size of contiguous writes hitting the disk to something closer to the umpty-megabytes-at-once which the disk would actually prefer. It's better fixed than ripped out, I'd say.
