Re: Ext2 / VFS projects

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:27:29 -0500 (EST), Alexander Viro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Correct, but that's going to make design much more complex - you really
> don't want to do it for anything other than sub-page stuff (probably even
> sub-sector). Which leads to 3 levels - allocation block/IO block/sub-sector
> fragment. Not to mention the fact that for cases when you have 1K
> fragments and really large blocks you don't want all this mess around...
> It's doable, indeed, but...

Sure, but to me the main question is this --- can we do this sort of
fragment support in ext3 without having to add complexity to the rest of
the VM/VFS?  I think the answer is yes.

--Stephen