Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 04:19:35 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reference for filesystem with btree layout? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990524041815.9491Q-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990524101108.3570A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, Narvi wrote: > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > anyone have a url to a discussion about such a creation? > > > > No. > > > I don't much care for the sequential layout of directories in FFS > > and was interested in alternatives. > > > > Presently ffs uses ufs code for directory related operations. It should be > possible (and not too hard at my reading of it back when I had a similar > idea) to replace them. It would change the on disk structure otherwise there would be a lot of extra IO involved no? > > also, specifically in FreeBSD, I don't see a reason why a filesystem can't > > take ownership of multiple block devices, is there a reason? > > > > What's the need? You can stripe the block devices with ccd (or concat > with vinum) and get the same result. the point would be to at runtime add more backing block devices to expand or migrate the filesystem. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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