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On 08/23/2017 05:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> - dynamically sized stripes, so that writes can always be full stripe
> writes, no overwrites, and atomic
Think about also that a block could be deallocated (i.e. canceling a file of 4kb). This leads to have some holes that you cannot fill without a RMW cycle...

BR

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