Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:25:02PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> you get no real slowdown as far as rough benchmarks are concerned, 
> perhaps with a microbenchmark you would see one and also, doesn't it 
> take up more space to save the extent info and such? Either way, all of 
> it's real benefits occur on large files.

IIRC, if your blocks are contiguous, you can save as soon as soon as the
file size goes above one block (witout extents, the first 12 blocks are
pointed to by what?  I forget... :-/ )
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