Abhishek Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Putting metacluster at the end of the block group gives slightly > inferior sequential read throughput compared to putting it in the > beginning or the middle, but the difference is very tiny and exists > only for large files that span multiple block groups.
Just an idea: What about putting it into the end of the previous block group (except for the first group, off cause) and starting to read the block group a little earlier (readahead/~before)? I imagine it might be about as good as placing it at the beginning while avoiding the fragmentation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
