Re: UFS fragments

2016-07-13 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Michael van Elst wrote: > Fragments are just the last (partial) block of a file. Fragments from > multiple files can be combined into a single block to save space, > especially for small files. Thanks for replying. I'm assuming then that the metadata for each file just poin

Re: UFS fragments

2016-07-13 Thread Michael van Elst
swiftgri...@gmail.com (Swift Griggs) writes: >I've been studying ffs_alloc.c in the kernel source. I was trying to >understand how the logical block allocation in UFS works. I never actually >knew about "fragments". I get why they are there, but I have some >questions if anyone has time: >* I

UFS fragments

2016-07-12 Thread Swift Griggs
I've been studying ffs_alloc.c in the kernel source. I was trying to understand how the logical block allocation in UFS works. I never actually knew about "fragments". I get why they are there, but I have some questions if anyone has time: * I notice that fragments can be re-allocated. Could t