On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:21:04PM -0500, Maria Short wrote:
> I have a question regarding how the Linux kernel handles slack space.
> I know that the ext3 filesystems typically use 1,2 or 4 KB blocks and
> if a file is not an even multiple of the block size then the last
> allocated block will not
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Maria Short wrote:
> I have a question regarding how the Linux kernel handles slack space.
> I know that the ext3 filesystems typically use 1,2 or 4 KB blocks and
> if a file is not an even multiple of the block size then the last
> allocated block will not be completely fille
On 12/8/06, Maria Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I need is the code in the kernel that does that. I have been
looking at http://lxr.linux.no/source/fs/ext3/inode.c but I could not
find the specific code for partially filling the last block and
placing an EOF at the end, leaving the rest to
I have a question regarding how the Linux kernel handles slack space.
I know that the ext3 filesystems typically use 1,2 or 4 KB blocks and
if a file is not an even multiple of the block size then the last
allocated block will not be completely filled, the remaining space is
wasted as slack space.
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