:
:> :(3) Or maybe we can add a parameter to the filesytem, telling it to try to
:> :preallocate some contiguous disk space for all directory files. I guess
:> :that the cost per bit on disk is less than the cost per bit in memory.
:>
:> I believe the filesystem already does this.
:>
:
:The FFS tries to allocate space contiguously for any type of file. It
:does not PRE-allocate disk space, which will result wasteage of disk space
:if that space is not used later.
:
:-Zhihui
I'm sorry, I misread that ... I thought he had said 'allocate'. It
definitely does not preallocate disk space. FFS is designed to
to avoid fragmentation so the blocks that it allocates when appending
to a file (or directory) tend to be contiguous.
-Matt
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