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Hi, I observed following behaviour. When I'm writing big (200MB+) files to samba share from Windows XP then writing speed is slow. Reading of these files (written from Windows XP) is very slow too. I found that it is caused by framgentation of this file [observed by using debuge2fs]. I tried to figure out what causes this framemtation and it seems that Windows XP is trying to do some optimalizations that are too bad for perfomance. It is trying to preallocate space for this file by writing forward in 32kb blocks where value 0 (zero) i...

Hi, i just wanted to say my sorries in advance (sorrie/sorry/sorri)...i have just started learning about the subject of caching, but unfortunately haven''t effictively managed to implement what i had learned. obviously it''s possible to cache a whole page, or action with the caches_page :x or caches_action :y methods, but for some reason it hasn''t really worked with

Wow, it takes a really long time to make a 2TB ext2fs. Are there better-than-default options that could be used for a large filesystem? mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 244203520 inodes, 488382016 blocks 24419100 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 14905 block groups 32768 blocks per group,