Re: New filesystem for Linux

From: Maurizio Lombardi
Date: Sun Nov 05 2006 - 08:03:30 EST


On 11/4/06, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

free space is organized in lists of free runs
and converted to bitmap only in case of
extreme fragmentation.

There is a performance reason to prefer lists of free blocks rather than bitmap?

I read from [Tanenbaum: Operating System, Design and Implementation II
ed. ] that lists are better than bitmap only when disk is almost full.


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