Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270762AbTG0MqX (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:46:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270764AbTG0MqX (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:46:23 -0400 Received: from nic.bme.hu ([152.66.115.1]:33752 "EHLO nic.bme.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270762AbTG0MqW (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:46:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3F23CCBC.9070600@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:59:40 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Egger Cc: Nikita Danilov , Linux Kernel Mailinglist , reiserfs mailing list Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) 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> In-Reply-To: <1059142851.6962.18.camel@sonja> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 34 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. :( > > > I thought that close was fine, it was putting it in the same block that was the problem? Again, I think this is best solved in the device layer. -- Hans - 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/