Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:06:20PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>   
>> 	Presumably that could be handled by having the layer
>> 	underneath the filesystem test if a write only sets bits
>> 	in an existing block, and if so just go ahead and 'overwrite'
>> 	that block.
>>     
>
> Which is still going to be a performance loss.
>   

Right.  And other implications.  See my last message for more info.

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