Re: vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor

[H. Peter Anvin]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > >
> > Well, you can always do that in-memory.
>
> It still involves searching no matter where you do it.  With FAT-16 that
> means up to 2^16 clusters to search through.  With FAT-32 even more.  It
> doesn't have a cluster bitmap to speed things up.

You don't, obviously, and the cluster links are fairly big.  Lipstick on 
a pig, and all that.  But it's prettier with the lipstick.

	-hpa
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