On Tue, Anton B. Rang wrote:
> So while I'm feeling optimistic :-) we really ought to be able to do this in 
> two I/O operations. If we have, say, 500K of data to write (including all of 
> the metadata), we should be able to allocate a contiguous 500K block on disk 
> and write that with a single operation. Then we update the ??berblock.
> 
> The only inherent problem preventing this right now is that we don't have 
> general scatter/gather at the driver level (ugh). 

Fixing this bug would help the NFS server significantly given the
general lack of continuity of incoming write data (split at mblk
boundaries).

Spencer
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