From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 14:01:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24B916A4CE; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:01:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (bgo1smout1.broadpark.no [217.13.4.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F55B43D2D; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.93]) by bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE0000H1K0X9O90@bgo1smout1.broadpark.no>; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:55:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE0004IXKCRX890@bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no>; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 660A8BDC4B; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:01:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 1084FBDC37; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:01:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0875833C3E; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:01:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:01:11 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: <4244EAFD.1030304@samsco.org> To: Scott Long Message-id: <868y49w5lk.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on dsa.des.no References: <200503260011.aa53448@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20050326031018.GB41481@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4244EAFD.1030304@samsco.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: cc: David Malone cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: David Schultz Subject: Re: UFS Subdirectory limit. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:01:57 -0000 Scott Long writes: > It would be much more worthwhile to introduce > a UFS3 that uses a more efficient directory layout (B-tree?) to provide > real value to increasing the nlink limitation. It would be even more worthwile to simply adopt an existing well- designed and well-tested file system, such as IBM JFS. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no