> A contiguous write doesn't cost anything much, so it could be major
> win if the kernel could flush dirty buffers that are behind and after
> the dirty block to be written. But this would nicely conflict with
> allocate-on-flush ;)
On the contrary, when you have a bunch of small files to sync
you just allocate them next to each other and flush them all
at once ;)
Rik
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