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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:19:56 -0800
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To: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>, Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@Namesys.COM>

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

>Le Fri, Mar 26, 2004, =C3  09:11:00AM -0800, Hans Reiser a =E9crit:
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> =20
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>>Nikita, would you confirm that the default fibration is to sort all=20
>>files with '.' as the penultimate character by their last character=20
>>first and then by the rest of the name in the usual lexicographic order? =

>>(If that is not the default, then please make it the default.)
>>   =20
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>Wouldn't it be slightly beneficial to expand this policy to not just
>look for extensions matching .*\.(?) but .*\.(.*) as well?
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>	-- Cyrille, needing some time to dive back into reiser4 testing
>
> =20
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I thought about that, but other than compiles I don't know of an=20
application that would benefit from this performance wise, and compiles=20
usually have . as the penultimate character in their fileset filenames. =20
I would actually much like to get feedback from others on this.

--=20
Hans