linux-kernel - Re: New filesystem for Linux

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Message-ID: <c87e555d0611050503q5d344ac9r8726d61115b024b3@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:03:09 +0100
From:	"Maurizio Lombardi" <m.lombardi85@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New filesystem for Linux

On 11/4/06, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.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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