On 4/25/11 5:07 PM, Sean McCauliff wrote: > Does ext3 allocate indirect blocks as needed or is there some fixed number of these like inodes? Should I be concerned with running out of indirect blocks? ext3 allocates them as needed. In fact you will often see them allocated consecutively with the data blocks they refer to: debugfs: stat bigfile Inode: 12 Type: regular Mode: 0644 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 330185944 Version: 0x00000000 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 8388608 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 16450 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x4db5f1c8 -- Mon Apr 25 17:12:24 2011 atime: 0x4db5f1c8 -- Mon Apr 25 17:12:24 2011 mtime: 0x4db5f1c8 -- Mon Apr 25 17:12:24 2011 BLOCKS: (0-11):2561-2572, (IND):2573, (12-267):2574-2829, (DIND):2830, (IND):2831, (268- 523):2832-3087, (IND):3088, (524-779):3089-3344, (IND):3345, (780-1035):3346-360 1, (IND):3602, (1036-1291):3603-3858, (IND):3859, (1292-1547):3860-4115, (IND):4 116, (1548-1803):4117-4372, (IND):4373, (1804-2059):4374-4629, (IND):4630, ... ... and so on (IND/DIND are indirect & double indirect blocks). -Eric > Thanks, > Sean _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
