Re: HFS and extents (was: no subject)
Re: HFS and extents (was: no subject)
- Subject: Re: HFS and extents (was: no subject)
- From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:11:00 +0100
Am 15.01.2007 um 22:01 schrieb Michael Smith:
According to a Wikipedia page about extents, it has stated HFS+ is
among several filesystems that support extents.
What do you mean by "support extents"?
HFS uses extent-based allocation; that is, rather than enumerating
every block that makes up an allocation, allocations are recorded
as a starting block and a run length.
If you mean this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extents, I
think it is somewhat misleading.
As Michael said, HFS extents are simply a matter of accounting for
used space.
I don't think that F_ALLOCEXTSPACE does what you think it does,
Neither do I, and I agree with Michael's advice
Alex
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