On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Darrin B.Jewell wrote:

> The following patch starts the search for free blocks immediately
> after the administration data in each cylinder group.  This results in
> better contiguous layout and the small allocation region now will
> only get used once the filesystem starts to get full.
>
> Does anyone see any downside?

Seems like a great idea.  Presumably that little chunk of space can  
still be used if there's no where else to store data?

-- thorpej