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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:10:07 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem holes
Message-ID:  <39FC3DCF.533DD71@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010282230110.10039-100000@fondue.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how about using an indirect table of 64M 32-bit pointers into
> the actual blocks being used ? For insertions you just
> allocate a new fixed size block from the file.

Isn't this roughly what dbm does with the hash key method?

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            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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