Re: Filesystem holes

[Wes Peters]

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how about using an indirect table of 64M 32-bit pointers into
> the actual blocks being used ? For insertions you just
> allocate a new fixed size block from the file.

Isn't this roughly what dbm does with the hash key method?

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