Delayed allocation is to skip the allocating step when writing a file, not to keep data in memory. I'd say this is more likely to be related to barriers, but that's only because of my hate towards how ext handles barriers in a non safe way.
Delayed allocation is to skip the allocating step when writing a file, not to keep data in memory. I'd say this is more likely to be related to barriers, but that's only because of my hate towards how ext handles barriers in a non safe way.