Allocation strategy - dynamic zone for small files

["Ihar `Philips` Filipau" <thephilips@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I'm totally unaware of state of modern file systems, but the idea I
have read out of the paper

http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/spadfs/download/INTERNALS

seems to be quite interesting. One of the interesting features of
ReiserFS is tail optimization to save disk space wasted on small
files/parts. It seemed bit too complicated and had lots of performance
drawbacks.

Instead the SpadFS tries to solve only half of the problem: case of
small files (symlinks fall into that cathegory too). Small files are
allocated in special zone and thus treated specifically. That way,
small file accesses can be optimized both performance wise and space
wise.

Just fyi.

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