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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: raymond jennings <highwind747@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:45:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <400BB549.3040904@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401162238.i0GMcxT3004785@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:47:55 +0300, Hans Reiser said:
>
>  
>
>>This is already done, they are called "extent"s.  Reiser4 uses them, XFS 
>>uses them, I think Veritas may have been the first to use them but I am 
>>not sure of this, maybe it was IBM.
>>    
>>
>
>Does the extent-based disk allocation used by OS/360 in 1964 count? :)
>  
>
Probably.  Tell me more about it.

-- 
Hans



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16 19:38 [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers raymond jennings
2004-01-16 19:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-16 19:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-16 20:36   ` Ian Pilcher
2004-01-16 21:57     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-16 20:47   ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-16 22:38     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-19 10:45       ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-01-19 16:20         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-19 17:06           ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-08 11:38           ` Keith Owens
     [not found] <1eI8L-5fS-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-16 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-29 16:40 raymond jennings

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