
> > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week
> > before I could get around to a build.  Any volunteers?
> 
> I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run?

Looks like we have expert help here :-) One very interesting question
would imho be, how do we best preallocate the log files ?
The current method is to prewrite 8k pages to the whole file, since
only writing 1 byte to the end of file triggered the sparse file handling.
This, although usually during off peak times, effectively doubles the writes 
for WAL. 

Andreas

Mon, 7 May 2001 14:56:22 +0200 
Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems