From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: Top 10 ways to remove Windows from your PC... Date: 10 Apr 1993 19:54:18 GMT
In article <1993Apr9.124712.4226@matuc2.mat.uc.pt>, rps@matuc2.mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro) writes:
> Does this extended filesystem [ext2fs] incorporates all the
> improvements from the fast file system (berkeley) ?
> Specifically, does it has ?
> - bitmaps instead of free list
> - blocks and fragments
> - cylinder groups
> - etc ...
It currently uses bitmaps and block groups, but the block groups are
not geometry related like BSD's cylinder groups.
Kernel support for blocks larger than 1K is still in testing, and with
only 1K blocks there is not much need for fragments. However, the
ext2fs filesystem format has provision for fragments, and this will be
supported fully in the future.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.