From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Bill Crawford <billc@netcomuk.co.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
Subject: Re: Hashing and directories
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:23:23 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103012123.f21LNNL30827@webber.adilger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9EB984.C1F7E499@transmeta.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at "Mar 1, 2001 01:05:08 pm"
H. Peter Anvin writes [re hashed directories]:
> I don't see there being any fundamental reason to not do such an
> improvement, except the one Alan Cox mentioned -- crash recovery --
> (which I think can be dealt with; in my example above as long as the leaf
> nodes can get recovered, the tree can be rebuilt.
Actually, with Daniel's implementation, the index blocks will be in
the same file as the directory leaf nodes, so there should be no problem
in losing leaf blocks after a crash (not more so than the current ext2
setup).
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-22 23:08 Bill Crawford
2000-01-01 2:02 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-01 20:54 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-01 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-01 21:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-01 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-02 9:04 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-02 12:01 ` Oystein Viggen
2001-03-02 12:26 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-03-02 12:58 ` David Weinehall
2001-03-02 19:33 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-12 10:05 ` Herbert Xu
2001-03-12 10:43 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-03-01 21:23 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-03-01 21:26 ` Bill Crawford
2001-03-01 21:05 ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-03-02 8:56 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-07 0:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-07 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-07 13:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-02 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-03 0:03 ` Bill Crawford
2001-03-08 12:42 ` Goswin Brederlow
2001-04-27 16:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22 23:54 ` Bill Crawford
2001-03-10 11:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-03-07 15:56 Manfred Spraul
2001-03-07 16:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-07 16:23 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-03-07 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
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