Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 15.02 schrieb Nikita Danilov:
> No special measures are taken to level block allocation. Wandered blocks
> are allocated to improve packing i.e., place blocks of the same file
> close to each other. Actually, it tries to place tree nodes in the
> parent-first order.
So the new blocks are created as close as possible to the old blocks
instead of say spreading them as far as possible. This is pretty bad for
usage in the embedded world but I guess this is not the market you're
aiming at. :(
--
Servus,
Daniel
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