Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262055AbUAFMHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:07:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262123AbUAFMHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:07:21 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:63133 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262055AbUAFMHU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:07:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFAA4F6.5040501@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:07:18 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: venom@sns.it CC: Steve Glines , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file system technical comparisons References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 22 venom@sns.it wrote: >That there is something I am not really sure I understood. > >Luigi > > > balanced trees squish things together at every modification of the tree. Dancing trees squish things together when they get low on ram, which is less often. this means that we can afford to squish tighter because we do it less often. -- 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/