Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:07:04 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching |
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Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > > Also, I think the bigalloc behavior just ultimately ends up introducing > even more fragmentation on an already fragmented file system. It'll keep > contiguous chunks together, but those chunks can end up being spread all > over the disk. > > -Jeff > Yes, and almost as important, it makes it difficult to understand and predict the allocator, which means other optimizations become harder to do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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