Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49

From: Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 16:52:23 EST


On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:

[ Hans: block preallocation or allocate on flush would be faster ]
>
> Does on-disk layout differ between no-prealloc, prealloc, and
> alloc-on-flush versions? Probably not.

Correct. The only thing that changes is when we grab free blocks. The
disk format is the same regardless.

> Then there's no problem getting
> no-prealloc into kernel first ASAP, then changing it to
> alloc-on-flush.

Yes.

-chris

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