The fallocate() Story Continues
15 Apr 2009Making apps use the fallocate() syscall instead of writing zeros to a file is the preferred way to init a... →
The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with... →
Making apps use the fallocate() syscall instead of writing zeros to a file is the preferred way to init a... →
Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests... →
I saw these File System Freezing patches that got merged into Linus’ tree yesterday and instantly thought that these patches... →