Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | | Subject | Re: Ext2 directory index: ALS paper and benchmarks | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2001 05:08:39 +0100 |
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On December 6, 2001 04:56 am, Hans Reiser wrote: > >On December 6, 2001 04:41 am, you wrote: > > > >>ReiserFS is an Htree by your definition in your paper, yes? > > > >You've got a hash-keyed b*tree over there. The htree is fixed depth. > > > > B*trees are fixed depth. B-tree usually means height-balanced.
I was relying on definitions like this:
B*-tree
(data structure)
Definition: A B-tree in which nodes are kept 2/3 full by redistributing keys to fill two child nodes, then splitting them into three nodes.
To tell the truth, I haven't read your code that closely, sorry, but I got the impression that you're doing rotations for balancing no? If not then have you really got a b*tree?
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