Re: Really Simple File System versus raw disk I/O

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 18:15:47 EST

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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:56:22PM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> My point was to be able to create more than one file, and to guarantee
> their contiguousness. If I try to do that on ext2, I have to do it right
> after the filesystem is created

Yes, but I fail to see how that is any worse than an alternative which
forces you to allocate the files when you do the mkfs!

--Stephen

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