Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:38:59 -0800 "raymond jennings" <highwind747@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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~Randy
Everything is relative.
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