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SubjectRe: Ext2fs and fragments??
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> > Have fragments been implemented within ext2fs?  If so:
>
> No, fragments are mostly an odd BSD idea. Modern systems don't need
> fragments so much as they tend to use a smaller block size, but aggressively
> work to write/read big contiguous blocks and lay files out accordingly

There is a recent FS research project called the "TreeFS" which is not block
based. If anyone is interested in these things then I ask them to contact me
privately (not via this list) and I'll forward some information on the TreeFS
and my own File System research project.


Russell Coker

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