Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:03:09 +0100 | From | "Maurizio Lombardi" <> | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
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On 11/4/06, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>free space is organized in lists of free runs >and converted to bitmap only in case of >extreme fragmentation.
There is a performance reason to prefer lists of free blocks rather than bitmap?
I read from [Tanenbaum: Operating System, Design and Implementation II ed. ] that lists are better than bitmap only when disk is almost full.
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