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SubjectRe: [patch] delayed disk block allocation
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Actually, there are a whole bunch of performance issues with 1kB block
> ext2 filesystems. For very small files, you are probably better off
> to have tails in EAs stored with the inode, or with other tails/EAs in
> a shared block. We discussed this on ext2-devel a few months ago, and
> while the current ext2 EA design is totally unsuitable for that, it
> isn't impossible to fix.

IMO the ext2 filesystem design is on it's last legs ;-) I tend to
think that a new filesystem efficiently handling these features is far
better than dragging ext2 kicking and screaming into the 2002's :)

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