Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264053AbTH2Ftv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:49:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264389AbTH2Ftv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:49:51 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:52621 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264053AbTH2Ftu (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:49:50 -0400 X-Comment-To: Mike Fedyk To: Mike Fedyk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] extents support for EXT3 From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME References: <20030828172214.GC21352@matchmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:55:15 +0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 16 >>>>> Mike Fedyk (MF) writes: MF> With extents, what are the worst/best cases for max file size on a 1k block MF> filesystem? AFAICT, worst case is 16GB if it backs out to the second level MF> like we have now... well, for extents case the worst/best cases are function of block allocation. in fact, the best case could have ~31000 blocks per extent (limited by groups). the worst case is having 1 block per extent -> 12 bytes per block (4 bytes w/o extents) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/