Re: Ext2fs and fragments??

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@tele.fi)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:21:44 +0200 (EET)


> Hi,
>
> I have a few questions pertaining to fragments and ext2fs. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Have fragments been implemented within ext2fs? If so:

No, they haven't.

> 1. Do the bits of the block bitmaps represent logial blocks or
> fragments?

Umm.. Hard to say for sure, seems to be logical blocks of
1kB (or 2kB, or 4kB) Those are also fragment-size parameters,
though fragments are not used.

> 2. How do you set the fragment size within a filesystem?

See e2mkfs utility. It creates the initial superblock,
where that info is stored.

> 3. What source code deals with the implementation of fragments?

None. What would is balloc.c

> Thanks :)
> --
> Scott Gray

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>