From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 16:07:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA02330 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 16:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02321 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 16:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id BAA17265 ; Sat, 11 May 1996 01:07:15 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id BAA29347 ; Sat, 11 May 1996 01:07:23 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id AAA03313; Sat, 11 May 1996 00:43:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199605102243.AAA03313@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Allocation Unit and File System in General To: pchhibbe@attila.stevens-tech.edu (Parag Chhibber) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 00:43:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960510191750.006baf38@attila.stevens-tech.edu> from Parag Chhibber at "May 10, 96 03:17:50 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1983 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Parag Chhibber said: > My question is how are allocation units handled in FreeBSD, because with > disk striping and such, disk sizes can become pretty big. We don't have this kind of block allocation thus not the same problems. You can have a 9 GB filesystem with 8 KB blocks... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Thu May 9 23:47:04 MET DST 1996