Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754058Ab0FWXkj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:40:39 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:45792 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753904Ab0FWXkh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:40:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:40:31 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Edward Shishkin Cc: Daniel J Blueman , Mat , LKML , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason , Ric Wheeler , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , The development of BTRFS Subject: Re: Btrfs: broken file system design (was Unbound(?) internal fragmentation in Btrfs) Message-ID: <20100623234031.GF7058@shareable.org> References: <4C07C321.8010000@redhat.com> <4C1B7560.1000806@gmail.com> <4C1BA3E5.7020400@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C1BA3E5.7020400@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 597 Lines: 14 Edward Shishkin wrote: > I have noticed that events in Btrfs develop by scenario not predicted > by the paper of academic Ohad Rodeh (in spite of the announce that > Btrfs is based on this paper). This is why I have started to grumble.. In btrfs, "based on" means "started with the algorithm and ideas of", not "uses the same algorithm as". -- 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/