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Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>    This changeset implements new block allocator for reiserfs and adds one
>    more tail policy. This is a product of continuous NAMESYS research in this
>    area. This piece of code incorporates work by Alexander Zarochencev,
>    Jeff Mahoney and Oleg Drokin.

What Christoph said ;)

Block allocation algorithms are really, really important.  I'd be very interested
in a description of what this change does, what problems it is solving, how it
solves them, observed results, testing methodology, etc.   Is such a thing
available?

Thanks.
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