linux-ext4 - Re: Beginner questions about ext4

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:20:01 +0200
From:	Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Beginner questions about ext4

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> This had two difficulties.  The first is that every 128MB (assuming a
> 4k blocksize and the default/maximum number of blocks per block
> group), there would be file system metadata, thus breaking up the
> maximum contiguous free space available for data blocks.

But the break up of contiguous free space still occurs, because each
group has a group descriptor in it's beginning, right?

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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