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What is the bitmap allocator?

April 26, 2017allocator bitmap

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What is the bitmap allocator?

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The allocator used in ext2 and ext3 would scan the free blocks bitmap for every new block written to a file. This was inefficient, and the block allocator in ext4 (mballoc) replaced the bitmap allocator and is one of the reasons ext4 is much faster than ext3.