UFS block writing

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 31 11:18:27 UTC 2009


Does UFS do full-block writes? Always or only in specific circumstances?

For example, if a UFS file system is created with the 16/2 
block/fragment size, and a small random write (e.g. 512 bytes) comes in 
the middle of a larger file, will UFS read in the whole 16k block, 
modify it and write it out? What about fragments?



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