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From article <65@microsoft.UUCP>, by w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb):
> I realise it's pretty obvious, but just in case I confused anybody when
> describing how adding data to extent "c" in a track packed like so:
> aaaaabbcccddddeeeeee----------ff would result in its being repacked as
> aaaaabbccc----------fddddeeeeeef, that was a typo.  It should have been
> aaaaabbccc----------ddddeeeeeeff, with f staying where it was.  Sorry.
> 
> P.S. I've received a few replies, but so far it seems as if I'm the best FS
> designer in this newsgroup.  Isn't anyone going to prove I'm not? :-)
> Really, there must be *something* wrong, or the Amiga wouldn't have been
> designed with sectors in the first place.
> -- 
> 	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)

The biggest problem that I see with your scheme is that it will only work
with floppy disks (hard disks need not apply). The hard disks that I am aware
of know about sectors (frequently, in the case of SCSI, in the drive itself).
OFS works fine on HD's, but your scheme would need a separate file system
for HD's. I know of (at least) one extent-based HD file system (Silicon
Graphics uses one), but it uses sectors as the level of granularity (this
is all I know about it!, except that it is very fast).

	Scott Henry
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