Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:03:07 -0800


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.

-hpa

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