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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 :-)

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