Originally posted by polarathene
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when writing to the filesystem, the kernel needs to map the blocks that will be written, as some some blocks may be newly allocated or released and it will start a transaction inside the ext4 journal to account these changes
but if all the blocks are already allocated and will be overwritten, the blocks layout will not change and thus there is no need to start a transaction, so this patch will be useful on any high throughput device
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