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

[Rogier Wolff]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Martin Mares wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > > True.  Note too, though, that on a filesystem (which we are, after all,
> > > talking about), if you assume a large linear space you have to create a
> > > file, which means you need to multiply the cost of all random-access
> > > operations with O(log n).
> > 
> > One could avoid this, but it would mean designing the whole filesystem in a
> > completely different way -- merge all directories to a single gigantic
> > hash table and use (directory ID,file name) as a key,

Novell, NTFS, HFS all do this. 

                                Roger. 

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