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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3
Hi!

> > > you get no real slowdown as far as rough benchmarks are concerned,
> > > perhaps with a microbenchmark you would see one and also, doesn't it
> > > take up more space to save the extent info and such? Either way, all of
> > > it's real benefits occur on large files.
> >
> > IIRC, if your blocks are contiguous, you can save as soon as soon as the
> > file size goes above one block (witout extents, the first 12 blocks are
> > pointed to by what? I forget... :-/ )
>
> They are pointed to directly from the inode.
>
> In light of other concerns how reasonable is a switch to e2fsck that
> will remove extents so people can downgrade filesystems?

It is going to be non-trivial: downgrading filesystem will likely need
free space. And now: what happens when there's no free space?

Pavel
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