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Message-ID: <48C97338.5080502@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:36:24 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC: Harun Scheutzow <harun04@...eutzow.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> I don't think fat filesystems have any concept of reserving space for
> expanding files. It's a pretty simple filesystem after all designed for
> a single cpu machine with a non-multitasking OS (if you can call DOS an
> OS). Space tends to be allocated from the start of the disk wherever
> free space is found since otherwise you would have to go searching for
> the free space, which isn't that efficient.
>
Well, you can always do that in-memory.
-hpa
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