From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Harun Scheutzow <harun04@scheutzow.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:36:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C97338.5080502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080911191049.GB31271@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> I don't think fat filesystems have any concept of reserving space for
> expanding files. It's a pretty simple filesystem after all designed for
> a single cpu machine with a non-multitasking OS (if you can call DOS an
> OS). Space tends to be allocated from the start of the disk wherever
> free space is found since otherwise you would have to go searching for
> the free space, which isn't that efficient.
>
Well, you can always do that in-memory.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-11 18:01 vfat file system extreme fragmentation on multiprocessor Harun Scheutzow
2008-09-11 19:10 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-09-11 19:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-11 21:09 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-09-11 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-11 20:11 ` Harun Scheutzow
2008-09-11 21:20 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-09-11 23:03 ` Harun Scheutzow
2008-09-11 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <baZfg-1yC-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <baZS2-2rX-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-09-12 13:19 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-09-12 22:11 ` Harun Scheutzow
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