Hi Lars,
On 03/21/2017 12:37 AM, Lars Segerlund wrote:
Hi guys,
I am doing some apps that preallocates files at known locations on
disk, continous and the order ( placement ) is important, so I thought
I¨d ask if there has been any thoughts about this on tux3 ?
It¨s really a killer app for streaming, since files at the end of the
disk is slower, and files on the outer part of the platter is faster.
Ah, interesting I did not realize that a factor of something less than
two is so critical. And I guess you are telling us, spinning disks are
not dead yet.
Yes, this is something Hirofumi and I have discussed in the past. Tux3
is, in general, well suited to it. It would be required for any kind of
real-time guarantee. We should have a specific plan for it, and see how
the current code might be adapted for it.
Preferably I¨d like to have continous files of a given size take up
as much of the disk as I specify, from outer cylinders to the middle.
ext4 has some support to set this up at filesystem creation time
through a custom config to mkfs.
So there are two issues, one is large continous file allocation, and
the second is file placement.
Any thoughts ?
What API do you propose, for the user to specify these constraints?
Regards,
Daniel
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