Eric Sandeen wrote:
- rpm? (file installation and/or db files?)
The rpmdb is a bunch of db4 files. In don't think I want to interfere with
the db4 engine...
I am not really sure whether preallocation offers that much benefit for file
installation. May be if there is a parallel process also writing to the disk
heavily - but such processes should probably have their own partition/disk.
Would preallocation make sense for tar?
Let's ask the other way round: What are the costs of preallocation for - say
2M files with 50GB overall content?
Florian