Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell Coker - Mailing Lists <> | Subject | Re: Ext2fs and fragments?? | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:10:02 +1100 (EST) |
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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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