Subject: Re: LFS v2 layout
To: Jesse Off <joff@gci-net.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/07/2000 20:04:03
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:15:37PM -0700, Jesse Off wrote:
> Konrad Schroder wrote:
> > 
> >   + allow inode block size to be parametrized at newfs time, since they
> >     seem to be almost empty a lot of the time
> >
> 
> It might be nice too to change the Ifile to address these inodes by disk 
> blocks instead of by fs blocks.  That way, we can avoid searching an
> entire
> inode block for each inode.  And perhaps as an extension of this idea,
> we could 
> eliminate inode 'blocks' altogether and just have a field in the segment
> summary describing how many inode disk blocks immediately follow the
> summary.

Hm, using fs blocks has the benefit that this scales with the fs
block (I guess, fragment?) size, so BIG partitions have a chance to work...
or am I wrong?

	-is