On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Since ext3/4 work hard to allocate file blocks contiguously, it makes >> sense to >> assume that after the header blocks the file blocks will be present. >> While >> this is less likely to be true as the file size increases, for ext4 it is >> usually true for files smaller than a few MB, which is many of them. > > Thanks for the clarification. On ext4,I believe an extent can address upto > 128MB. So I assume, for a file of size 50MB ,there is possibility this will > be stored contiguously. Is that correct assumption? and If we mounted ext3 > as ext4, will the inode become extent based rather than the old > direct/indirect block accessing method? > My file system is ext3. In addition, my partition size is very large, it is 400GB. Is that a problem? I tried extcarve at two machines, both got the same results, i.e., only generated some 4KB non-sense files there. Jidong _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
