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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