Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:58:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Big files in ext2fs (but not i_osync) |
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > For that matter, we could decide that Really Big Files should not have > any direct pointers, only indirects. That would actually be an > optimization that would more than make up for stealing one direct > pointer for extra size bits.
Trust me, you don't want to do this. This results in horrible stuff when the file grows past the cut-off point, where you'd have to start shuffling the indirect pointers on disk around or something equally disgusting.
Take the frags thing instead.
Linus
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