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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 97 12:28 NZST
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To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
From: Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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At 03:03 PM 18/04/97 -0400, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
>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...
>

Hadn't thought of THAT one before :)  Although having some SMALL amount of
Slack can speed up the calculations for locating info on the disk :)