linux-ext4 - Re: mke2fs options for large media archive filesystem

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Date:	Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:15:20 +0400
From:	"Vitaliy Filippov" <vitalif@...rcmc.ru>
To:	"Andreas Dilger" <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Bastien Traverse" <bastien.traverse@...il.com>
Subject: Re: mke2fs options for large media archive filesystem

> I would say that bigalloc is probably not what you want for an archival  
> system. It is relatively new and the space savings is minimal. It is  
> mostly for filesystems that need to allocate and free large files  
> rapidly.

And does it introduce any memory usage benefit? Maybe not on a 1TB, but on  
a 32TB partition? :)
I.e. does the kernel keep full block bitmap (or maybe a tree of blocks?)  
in memory, or does it read parts of it when they're needed?

-- 
With best regards,
   Vitaliy Filippov
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