Fragmentation on XFS
Jamie Lokier
jamie at shareable.org
Mon Feb 25 16:11:16 GMT 2008
Rob Bosch wrote:
> Destination file on XFS
> - ftruncate, 59GB file, Execution time 52776 secs, 1235 extents
> - posix_fallocate, 59GB file, Execution time 53919 secs, 11 extents
Any idea why Glibc's posix_fallocate makes any difference?
Doesn't it simply write a lot of zeros? In that case, why doesn't
rsync writing lots of data sequentially result in the same number of
extents?
-- Jamie
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