From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) Subject: Re: Ext fs wastes space Date: 30 Sep 1992 05:48:07 GMT
In article <1992Sep22.071830.5677@jussieu.fr> of comp.os.linux,
card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) writes:
>
> In the second generation of the ext fs (yes, I know, I am late, I
> should have released it sooner 8-( ), the file system is made of blocks
> groups. Each group contains 8192 blocks (when 1024 bytes blocks are used)
> and there is a part of the inode table and a part of the bitmap in the group.
> This way, even if a group is damaged, the other ones can still be accessed.
>
By the way, will EFS2 support block clustering a la UFS? I do like the
idea of 8K block performance with 1K (or 512 byte!) block overhead.
/hpa
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