On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:55:38PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
I think worrying about indirect blocks really doesn't matter much
these days. For one thing extent based filesystems have a lot less
of these, and second for a journaling filesystem we only need to log
modification to the indirect blocks and not actually write them back
in place during the sync. At least for XFS the actual writeback can
happen a lot later, as part of the ordered list of delwri buffers.
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