Marcel Witte wrote:
So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system.
a) i wouldn't fully trust ext4 for a few more months at least (for a system partition, which you can toss and easily rebuild it's probably ready, for a large, not otherwise backuped, data collection it may not yet be) b) fallocate is relatively new, so you'd require a new libc and kernel (same reason i used fadvise and not sync_file_range) c) libc w/o proper kernel/fs support can emulate fallocate by prewriting zeros to every single block -- not likely what you'd want; this makes above (b) even more relevant.
artur