Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
>
> >Sure. However, I don't think it should come as any surprise to anybody
> >that trying to write to two different points in the same file is a bad
> >idea.
>
> 	Databases?

They uniformly (as far as I know) preallocate all the data blocks.

Exactly to avoid the block layout issue - they want the data blocks as
contiguous as possible.

		Linus