On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, J=F6rn Engel wrote:

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> What I'm starting to wonder about is where your approach has advantages
> over Andrea's.  The chances of triggering something vaguely similar to
> Nick's worst case scenario are certainly higher for your solution.  So
> unless there are other upsides it is just the second-best solution.

Nick's worst case scenario is already at least partially addressed by the=
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Lumpy Reclaim code in 2.6.23. His examples assume 2.6.22 or earlier=20
code.

The advantages of this approach over Andreas is basically that the 4k=20
filesystems still can be used as is. 4k is useful for binaries and for=20
text processing like used for compiles. Large Page sizes are useful for=20
file systems that contain large datasets (scientific data, multimedia=20
stuff, databases) for applications that depend on high I/O throughput.