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SubjectRe: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:47:55 +0300, Hans Reiser said:
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>>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.
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>Does the extent-based disk allocation used by OS/360 in 1964 count? :)
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Probably. Tell me more about it.

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Hans


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