Re: Ext2fs and fragments??
Russell Coker - Mailing Lists (bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:10:02 +1100 (EST)
> > Have fragments been implemented within ext2fs? If so:
>
> No, fragments are mostly an odd BSD idea. Modern systems don't need
> fragments so much as they tend to use a smaller block size, but aggressively
> work to write/read big contiguous blocks and lay files out accordingly
There is a recent FS research project called the "TreeFS" which is not block
based. If anyone is interested in these things then I ask them to contact me
privately (not via this list) and I'll forward some information on the TreeFS
and my own File System research project.
Russell Coker