Block suballocation is a feature of some computer file systems which allows large blocks or allocation units to be used while making efficient use of empty...
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through techniques called block suballocation and tail merging. Other file systems such as ZFS support variable block sizes. Block storage is normally abstracted...
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Comparison of file systems (section Block capabilities)
a corresponding suballocation block chain in which all the tails of that size are stored. The overhead of managing suballocation block chains is usually...
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journaling (Novell Transaction Tracking System a.k.a. TTS) Support for block suballocation, starting in NetWare 4.x For larger files, the file system utilized...
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for 8 MB block sizes. VMFS5 uses 1 MB blocks throughout (with block suballocation for small files), and has a file size limit of 62 TB, though the VMDK...
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file must occupy at least one block. Because of this, BSD added block-level fragmentation, also called block suballocation, tail merging, or tail packing...
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support of small files, in terms of disk space and speed through block suballocation Liquid items (or virtual keys) – a special format of records in the...
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Memory management (redirect from Fixed-size blocks allocation)
how the system is generated, e.g., for PCP, MFT, MVT. In OS/360 MVT, suballocation within a job's region or the shared System Queue Area (SQA) is based...
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