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    SubjectRe: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)
    Daniel Egger wrote:

    >Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 15.02 schrieb Nikita Danilov:
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    >
    >
    >>No special measures are taken to level block allocation. Wandered blocks
    >>are allocated to improve packing i.e., place blocks of the same file
    >>close to each other. Actually, it tries to place tree nodes in the
    >>parent-first order.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >So the new blocks are created as close as possible to the old blocks
    >instead of say spreading them as far as possible. This is pretty bad for
    >usage in the embedded world but I guess this is not the market you're
    >aiming at. :(
    >
    >
    >
    I thought that close was fine, it was putting it in the same block that
    was the problem?

    Again, I think this is best solved in the device layer.

    --
    Hans


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