Re: New filesystem for Linux

["Maurizio Lombardi" <m.lombardi85@gmail.com>]

On 11/4/06, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> free space is organized in lists of free runs
> and converted to bitmap only in case of
> extreme fragmentation.
There is a performance reason to prefer lists of free blocks rather than bitmap?

I read from [Tanenbaum: Operating System, Design and Implementation II
ed. ] that lists are better than bitmap only when disk is almost full.


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