Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Tailmerging for Ext2 - release 0.0 | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:40:41 +0200 |
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Marc Lehmann wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:59:54PM +0200, Daniel Phillips <news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> wrote: > > Here we are, finally: code. I do not make any claim that this code is > > elegant, correct, complete, esthetically pleasing or that it will > > refrain from eating your hard disk. > > > > What this code will do is let you verify for yourself whether my > > proposed approach to tailmerging for Ext2 is worth the effort. After > > Well, if ext2 gets some decent directory speed up soon + some journaling > (soon as well ;) then this could be a very viable alternative to reiserfs!
Ext2 already has journalling - it's called Ext3. I see that Ingo Molnar has been working on a btree directory extension for Ext2 but I don't know what state it's in.
With these three extensions most of Ext2's remaining problems won't hurt much until you get into terabyte filesystems.
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