On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:30:53PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > You can't change this behavior. UFS can only use a file fragment (that
> > is, typically 1/8 of a full block) at the *END* of a file, not the middle.
>
> pardon the ignorance (but i don't have the red book handy),
> thas that mean that if you need 1 frag+1 byte you end up using a full
> block ?
Nope. You can have a frag that is a multiple of the minimal frag size.
For instance an 11K file uses two 4k full blocks and one 3k frag.
[example taken from McKusick's UNIX Internals class notes]
>From the red Daemon book, pp.272: The fragment size is specified at the
time that the filesystem is created; each file system block can be
broken down into two, four, or eight fragments [parts]; each of which is
addressable.
Enjoy!
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