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Subject: Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2
To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:35:34 +0000 (GMT)
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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
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