-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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? :) I agree with this idea. It seems we will never implement it in future, once "fragment" packed into inode. Coly > > -Eric > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGs1XWuTp8cyZ5lTERAoFSAJsE4noHvOm77i0BKWiw5L1DDAnLKgCfXKcv uL2ZZDiPJYUDWpKWwtIf1uo= =bGt4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
