From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "raymond jennings" <highwind747@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:52:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116115237.08b65335.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY1-F117hxeH6PC8MS00006f92@hotmail.com>
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?
--
~Randy
Everything is relative.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 19:38 raymond jennings
2004-01-16 19:52 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-01-16 19:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-16 20:36 ` Ian Pilcher
2004-01-16 21:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-16 20:47 ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-16 22:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-19 10:45 ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-19 16:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-19 17:06 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-08 11:38 ` Keith Owens
[not found] <1eI8L-5fS-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-16 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-29 16:40 raymond jennings
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