Re: [Fwd: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr]

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr]
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 17:57:25 EEST


>> 1) pre-allocation takes a *long* time. Allocating 24 203MB files on a
>> clean ext2 partition of 18GB takes many, many minutes, for example.
>> Presumably, the same overhead is being incurred when block
>> allocation happens "on the fly".
>
>It is not the allocation which is taking ages, it's the actual
>writing of the data.

Except that for preallocation, I only write one byte in every block,
so for a 203MB file, I only write 52K approximately (ext2 4K blocks).

--p


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