Re: How to store big file

[Pradeep P. <pp...@ee...>]

>    I am interesting in LFS too. After reading several papers about
> LFS, I got a question. LFS splits the disk into equal-sized
> segments(right?), in which files are stored. How about if a file is
> larger than one segment? How does the file span across several
> segments? I am not sure whether its inode can only contain the blocks
> of the same segment or any block in other segments.

An inode can contain blocks from any segment.

Pradeep