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From: "Xin Zhao" <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
Subject: Why ext3 uses different policies to allocate inodes for dirs and files?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:42:01 -0500
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The policy seems to distribute dir inodes uniformly on all block
groups. Why do we want to do this?  Isn't it better to create a dir
inode close to its parent dir inode?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Xin