Re: Space wasting

On Monday 08 March 2004 14:06, Adal Chiriliuc wrote:
> I know all this. How do unix fs compensate?

One (obvious) solution that's used by e.g. ReiserFS (AFAIK !) is that it
stores all full blocks and everything that's left gets thrown into special
blocks which contain several such "leftovers". There are other methods as
well, but as I don't know much more than some speculations about how these
work I can't really tell you how they work ;-)

BTW, this "leftover" problem isn't new. FAT is well known to not be able to
handle these, it was a popular programming exercise in the bad ol' DOS days
to write a tool that calculates just how much of your precious 100MB HD is
wasted/lost because FAT can't handle "leftovers" :-)

> But I still think that the 1100% increase in folder count it's not a
> good thing.

But this solution is easy to handle and very reliable which is more important
to me than wasting some inodes for all those directories...

> Adal Chiriliuc

C'ya,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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