Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:45:04 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961001133845.22919B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199610010424.XAA01672@friley216.res.iastate.edu>
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On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Chris Csanady wrote: > >> What, aside from extendable partitions, would LVM give us over CCD? > > > >The ability to resize partitions in itself is worthwhile. > > > >JFS or VXFS-like, metadata logging for increased robustness and faster > >reboots without the need for fsck in regular operation would also be nice. > > This would be nice. Terry Lambert mentioned that he had implemented a read only > version of JFS, perhaps this would be a good start? > > Does JFS also use linear directory structures though? I noticed while reading through > some docs on XFS, that it implemented directories as b-trees. Im not quite sure how > one would implement this, but it sure seems like it would be a win.. NTFS also uses b-trees. Actually it uses a linear directory structure for small directories and b-trees for larger directories. This optimization reminds me of the direct inode/indirect inode scheme used in FFS. Regards, Mike Hancock
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