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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:12:17 -0700
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To: "Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando" <gorlando@futuretg.com>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Clusterfs.COM>, Spam <spam@tnonline.net>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:

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> Hans, instead invent the ReiserFS, and he is not a newbie in FileSystem
> architecture.

I used to be one.;-)

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> So, I suppose that Hans choose a particular routine inside XFS that is
> used to solve a particular problem that probably the employees he hire
> was not capable to solve.

No, I never read the code, I just listened to them describe how they 
only allocate blocks at flush time and realized they were right.