Subject: Re: LFS (was Thank you NetBSD)
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/25/2005 10:49:49
hi,

> I don't remember if it used indirect blocks.  Greg Oster and I were
> talking about killing off fragments from our LFS and trying to eliminate
> indirect blocks by using extents.  It is not 100% clear how this ought
> to work, but with those two key changes (go back to the Sprite way of
> storing inodes, and, as far as possible, block indirection) a lot of
> the hair in the code could go away.

i don't think extents can replace indirect blocks.

YAMAMOTO Takashi