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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!tezcat.com!imci5!imci4!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!genesis.westend.com!ne ws.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Q: fast file system Message-ID: <DswKyn.KD2@ora.de> Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag References: <31BDB7F7.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:01:35 GMT Lines: 17 In <31BDB7F7.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> writes: >(1) Is is true that only files without indirect blocks can have the last >bit allocated in a fragment ? It's the other way round. Only files without indirect blocks can have fragments and hence have the last bit/fragment (or the last n bits/fragments) of a block not allocated. >(2) If it's correct to say that block pointers in the inode structure >point to blocks (not fragments) and distinct fragments within the same >block can be allocated to different files, [...] The block pointers in the inode structure actually point to fragments. -- Christoph Badura O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag