Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264501AbUASKpc (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:45:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264604AbUASKpc (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:45:32 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:32154 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264501AbUASKpb (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:45:31 -0500 Message-ID: <400BB549.3040904@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:45:29 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: raymond jennings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers References: <200401161954.i0GJsEgj003906@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <40084DFB.5040106@namesys.com> <200401162238.i0GMcxT3004785@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200401162238.i0GMcxT3004785@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 26 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:47:55 +0300, Hans Reiser said: > > > >>This is already done, they are called "extent"s. Reiser4 uses them, XFS >>uses them, I think Veritas may have been the first to use them but I am >>not sure of this, maybe it was IBM. >> >> > >Does the extent-based disk allocation used by OS/360 in 1964 count? :) > > Probably. Tell me more about it. -- Hans - 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/