I wish ext4 had a feature to mark a file as "atomic" where it would allocate all atomic files in a long run, without room for expansion, and I suppose with very inefficient compaction upon deletion, but without any padding bytes.
A file “pointer” for byte exact files, pointer gets ditched for files that get updated or the pointer gets adjusted to another common file.
A file “pointer” for byte exact files, pointer gets ditched for files that get updated or the pointer gets adjusted to another common file.