Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:

> ext2fs is well used as a Linux filesystem which Caldera have a large
> interest in :)  I'd just like a file system where your 1 gig drive doesn't
> have a hundred meg or so of Slack Space, I could do just as well on a 800m
> drive with no slack space :)  Although drive space isn't THAT expensive any
> more... We haev to make a trade off somewhere, and ext2fs seems to do rather
> well.

Slack isn't just lost space to me! It's time lost seeking over it! When
you have an hundred megs of slack, it takes time to cross those...

Pierre Phaneuf