Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:45:29 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:47:55 +0300, Hans Reiser said: > > > >>This is already done, they are called "extent"s. Reiser4 uses them, XFS >>uses them, I think Veritas may have been the first to use them but I am >>not sure of this, maybe it was IBM. >> >> > >Does the extent-based disk allocation used by OS/360 in 1964 count? :) > > Probably. Tell me more about it.
-- Hans
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