Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760687AbXESQTT (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 12:19:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754518AbXESQTK (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 12:19:10 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:56720 "EHLO mail.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754488AbXESQTI (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 12:19:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:17:32 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , John Stoffel , David Woodhouse , akpm@osdl.org, Evgeniy Polyakov , Albert Cahalan , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Oeser , Pekka Enberg , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Jan Engelhardt , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Message-ID: <20070519161732.GA14324@mail.shareable.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <17994.1241.436841.681216@stoffel.org> <20070515191926.GB1220@lazybastard.org> <1179291255.2859.195.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070516110933.GA5472@lazybastard.org> <20070516113434.GC20482@mail.shareable.org> <20070516115003.GD5472@lazybastard.org> <17995.2550.581854.8393@stoffel.org> <20070516135318.GK5472@lazybastard.org> <20070519144556.GS11766@vasa.acc.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070519144556.GS11766@vasa.acc.umu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 17 David Weinehall wrote: > > It is also the filesystem that tries to scale logarithmically, as Arnd > > has noted. Maybe I should call it Log2 to emphesize this point. Log1 > > would be horrible scalability. > > So, log2fs... Sounds great to me. Why Log2? Logarithmic scaling is just logarithmic scaling. Does the filesystem use 2-ary trees or anything else which gives particular meaning to 2? -- Jamie - 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/