Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:39:21 +0100
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add b+tree library
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On Sat, 10 January 2009 21:29:04 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >
> > Joern is going to use it for logfs, that's the point. Not sure about
> > other filesystems.
> 
> Why can't you investigate other filesystem?
> if this library is used by only one fs, why does this library routine
> need to linux/lib/ directory?

Because it is not used for on-disk data structures.  It is an
alternative to radix trees, rbtrees, hash tables or linked lists.

Jörn

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