Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:43:04 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] file extents for EXT3 |
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:53:28 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
| Alex Tomas wrote: | > hello all! | > | > there are several problems with old good method ext2/ext3 | > use to store map of block for an inode. for example, ext3's | > truncate is quite slow. I think extents could solve this | > and some other troubles. so ... | > | > | > in fact, design is taken from htree modern ext2/ext3 uses. in constrast with | > htree, it isn't backward-compatible. | | Neat. I really like extents, and think this is the best long-term | approach. Apparently the ext3 maintainers do, too, because tytso/sct's | "ext roadmap" paper publishing a while ago describes extents, too. (I | wish I had a URL for that)
like this? http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix02/tech/freenix/tso.html
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