Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:52:37 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers |
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:38:59 -0800 "raymond jennings" <highwind747@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Is there any value in creating a new filesystem that encodes long contiguous | blocks as a single block run instead of multiple block numbers? A long file | may use only a few block runs instead of many block numbers if there is | little fragmentation (usually the case). Also dynamic allocation of | inodes...etc. The details are long; anyone interested can e-mail me | privately.
You mean line ext3fs + extents, or like JFS or XFS, which use extents?
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