Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:20:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > I have an item on my TODO list to add a mount (or tune2fs) option to
> > ext2 to allways reuse the block with the lowest number. That way it
> > would reuse a previously used and freed block instead of allocating a
> > fresh one.
> 
> This sounds interesting.
> 
> > Of cause genext2fs would have to use the same allocation scheme so it
> > doesn't leave holes at the start.
> 
> I did not think genext2fs could even create filesystems as large as a CD;
> has that limitation been removed recently?

If not I'm in trouble. I only made small filesystems so far or a real
device (no genext2fs, plain mount) for a full demo.

MfG
        Goswin