On Mon, 30 April 2007 12:59:26 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > We could eliminate the block bitmap, but I don't think there's much > reason to. It improves allocator performance with negligible footprint > and improves redundancy. LogFS uses that scheme and it costs dearly. Walking the rmap to figure out which blocks are used and which aren't can approach fsck time when the filesystem gets full. Jörn -- "Security vulnerabilities are here to stay." -- Scott Culp, Manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, 2001 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
