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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Disk placement options
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:28:57 -0700
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To: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Ash <ashrat@gmail.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Vladimir Saveliev wrote:

>Hello
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>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:30, Ash wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>Does ReiserFS V3 provide any control for the placement of files on
>>disk; something like policy modules for disk placement ?  clustering
>>of files for example ?
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>No. The only thing to control file placement is hash selection. But it
>is rather about ordering names in a directory.
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>>Thanks,
>>Ash
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I have always intended to implement it someday, and to make major 
packing locality selectable from userspace, but I have not done so yet.