Re: Why we need delayed allocation!

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 20:27, Theodore Ts'o wrote:


> The problem is that when the linker is writing out the ELF executable,
> it is doing so via apparently random seeks, probably because it is
> writing out the various ELF sections in some order which is most
> convenient for itself.  In particular, it appears than it wrote out the
> 9 4k blocks that comprise the filefrag executable in the following order:
> 
>       Blocks 0, 7, 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 6, 8

well the other possibility is that the elf linker is smart and writes
stuff out in the order ld.so is going to use it and thus actually is
*avoiding* seeks by means of controlled fragmentation!

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