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    SubjectRe: Big files in ext2fs (but not i_osync)


    On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
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    > For that matter, we could decide that Really Big Files should not have
    > any direct pointers, only indirects. That would actually be an
    > optimization that would more than make up for stealing one direct
    > pointer for extra size bits.

    Trust me, you don't want to do this. This results in horrible stuff when
    the file grows past the cut-off point, where you'd have to start shuffling
    the indirect pointers on disk around or something equally disgusting.

    Take the frags thing instead.

    Linus


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