Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:08:26 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UFS Subdirectory limit. Message-ID: <22798.1111939706@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:01:11 %2B0200." <868y49w5lk.fsf@xps.des.no>
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In message <868y49w5lk.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> 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. Even better: Do both and then on top of it encourage further research into filesystems which take modern usage of computing systems into account :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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