Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 02, 2007 17:55 +0800, Coly Li wrote: >> These days, when I read the source code of mke2fs, I found an option -f >> to set the fragment size. >> >> But I can not find any explaining for ext3/4 framgment from google, >> excepting someone saying ext2/3 does not support this feature. >> >> Can anyone tell me what is the function or purpose of fragment of ext >> file system ? > > This is an obsolete concept from BSD that was never used by ext[234]. > Consider a "fragment" in this context to be the same as a "tail" for > reiserfs. A very small file, or the end of a file that is less than > a block.
There's a fair amount of code around this never-implemented concept; should it be removed? :) -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
