> > I do not know if I should attempt official kernel integration. I
> > probably can make it per mount option pretty easily.
>
> If you can show with actual benchmarks how much slower is the worst case,
> and if the slow down isn't too bad (or is inexistant), then it should
> definitely be integrated.
> We just have to come up with the worst case and a benchmark for it so we
> can try it on various configs. Is linear access to a big
> file the worst case ? Isn't there something worse ?
mj thinks random access is the real worst case. No, I did not do the
benchmarks. Too much memory and not enough unpartitioned hdd space,
here ;-).
Pavel
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