From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Beginner questions about ext4
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:20:01 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> This had two difficulties.  The first is that every 128MB (assuming a
> 4k blocksize and the default/maximum number of blocks per block
> group), there would be file system metadata, thus breaking up the
> maximum contiguous free space available for data blocks.

But the break up of contiguous free space still occurs, because each
group has a group descriptor in it's beginning, right?

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho