On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:19:46PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Note, for this purpose you don't need to keep a bit per page. The
> OS I/O system will load 64k+ (8+ pages) in one go so one bit per 8
> pages would be sufficient.
AFAIK that's entirely dependant on the filesystem and how it's created
(and possibly the OS as well). So arbitrarily deciding each bit is 8
pages is a bad idea. I could see allowing for a setting that determins
how many pages per bit, though, but I think we're also getting ahead of
ourselves.
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