Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why VMIO directory is a bad idea? Message-ID: <199912102013.MAA60500@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991210135054.10820A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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:> :(3) Or maybe we can add a parameter to the filesytem, telling it to try to
:> :preallocate some contiguous disk space for all directory files. I guess
:> :that the cost per bit on disk is less than the cost per bit in memory.
:>
:> I believe the filesystem already does this.
:>
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:The FFS tries to allocate space contiguously for any type of file. It
:does not PRE-allocate disk space, which will result wasteage of disk space
:if that space is not used later.
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:-Zhihui
I'm sorry, I misread that ... I thought he had said 'allocate'. It
definitely does not preallocate disk space. FFS is designed to
to avoid fragmentation so the blocks that it allocates when appending
to a file (or directory) tend to be contiguous.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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