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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