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SubjectRe: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers
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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