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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: efs - no bitmap?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.174237.8185@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:42:37 GMT
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- I was just looking through the README files for mcc 0.97p2 and noted
- that the efs claims to use a linked list instead of a bitmap, "saving
- all that wasted space" or some such. Since one of the major improvements
- between the original Sys5 filesystem and bsd/usf was changing from a
- linked list to a bitmap to reduce disk fragmentation and improve
- performance, I hope this doesn't mean what I think it does.
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- Use of a linked list saves space, but you pay forever in performance,
- either by having fragmentation of by searching the list to insert newly
- freed disk space in order. In either case it's a bad idea and I hope
- that's not what is being used in efs. If it is someone should start
- working on efs2 now, but I assume the people who wrote efa knew about
- all this and the README is just unclear.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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