Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 23:03:07 EST


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> There will be a lot fewer metadata index
> blocks in your directory file, for one thing.
>

Oh yes, another thing: a B-tree directory structure does not need
metadata index blocks.

        -hpa

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