Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2 | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:35:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > There will be a lot fewer metadata index > > blocks in your directory file, for one thing. > > > > Oh yes, another thing: a B-tree directory structure does not need > metadata index blocks.
Before people get excited about complex tree directory indexes, remember to solve the other 95% before implementation - recovering from lost blocks, corruption and the like - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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