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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Contiguous files; extent based file systems
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Date: 18 Dec 87 22:13:00 GMT
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First, there is no such thing as indirect inode.  Second, having contiguous
files are only good if you are the only one using the drive and you are
guaranteeing that you are reading the file in one single pass.  Far better
is recent Berkeley file systems with decent interleaving and clustering.

-Ron