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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: File system gets too fragmented ???
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> 
> It might help somewhat if a file that grows by a fragment can allocate
> the free fragment immediately preceeding it instead of being relocated
> to a fresh block.  I don't know if FFS does this or not.
> 

Really? FFS allocates free fragments with bitmap, so it should be able to
find free fragments anywhere. 

-Zhihui



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