Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: atomicity | Date | 7 Dec 1998 17:55:42 +0100 |
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Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian@xensei.com> writes: > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > > > ext2fs tries to grab linear chunks of disk and divides the disk into cylinder > > groups to also help to maintain locality. The BSD ffs papers [McKusik et al] > > describe this sort of stuff well. > > I am astonished to hear that ext2fs uses cyl groups. > Well, the name is a hysterical ^w historical accident.
Call them "sector groups" instead and you be closer to the truth.
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