Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 19:30:29 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: large-file FS IS ALREADY DONE (smugfs) |
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > OK, let's start with the design constraints for such an FS: > > Did you take a look at smugfs by mj? I think that most of this is > already done.
I haven't actually read the code or tried it, but I did follow the discussions closely.
> > - directories should be kept out of the way of files > > Not sure how it does this one. I'm not sure if smugfs even supports > directories :-).
It doesn't. If we are serious about large-file filesystem support, we probably shouldn't snip my design constraits and get the coding bulldogs out :-)
Of course, we should reuse as much of ext2 as posssible, since that means bugfree, fast and nonbloating code.
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