Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272127AbTGYO2H (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:28:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272128AbTGYO2G (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:28:06 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:33470 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272127AbTGYO17 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:27:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) From: Yury Umanets To: Daniel Egger Cc: Nikita Danilov , Hans Reiser , Linux Kernel Mailinglist , reiserfs mailing list In-Reply-To: <1059142851.6962.18.camel@sonja> References: <3F1EF7DB.2010805@namesys.com> <1059062380.29238.260.camel@sonja> <16160.4704.102110.352311@laputa.namesys.com> <1059093594.29239.314.camel@sonja> <16161.10863.793737.229170@laputa.namesys.com> <1059142851.6962.18.camel@sonja> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: NAMESYS Message-Id: <1059143985.19594.3.camel@haron.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 25 Jul 2003 18:39:45 +0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 29 On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:20, Daniel Egger wrote: > Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 15.02 schrieb Nikita Danilov: > > > No special measures are taken to level block allocation. Wandered blocks > > are allocated to improve packing i.e., place blocks of the same file > > close to each other. Actually, it tries to place tree nodes in the > > parent-first order. > > So the new blocks are created as close as possible to the old blocks > instead of say spreading them as far as possible. This is pretty bad for > usage in the embedded world but I guess this is not the market you're > aiming at. :( Reiser4 has plugin-based architecture. So, anybody is able to write new block allocator plugin. Speaking about possible embedded usage... What kind of embedded devices do you mean. Reiser4 driver is big enough in size for some of them (for instance, for mine MPIO MP3 player :)) -- We're flying high, we're watching the world passes by... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/