On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:28:43AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
[cut defrag method]
We could expect filesystems to allocate the new blocks (data and
possibly
metadata) more or less sequentially on disk. What would led the filesystem
code to not be sequential (most of the time assuming a single block device
underneath) ?
Here is an article on the topic. Do we have ext3 block reservation in
FC kernels?
http://lwn.net/Articles/81357/