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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Htree concept
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:29:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55537BF7.8000602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mivr40$2lj$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 5/13/15 10:37 AM, U.Mutlu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a toy-fs, and discover a major shortcoming
> (finding a given child (dir/file) as fast as possible),
> which other developers (ie. ext3/4) had encountered long ago too.
> They introduced HTree. The info on HTree on the web is scarce
> or I couldn't find the right texts/papers yet.
> I wonder how HTree works on a conceptual basis.
> Could a kind soul enligten me pls. TIA.

Regarding htree details, did you look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTree

which points to:

http://ext2.sourceforge.net/2005-ols/paper-html/node3.html
and more specifically,
http://web.archive.org/web/20131203105316/http://www.linuxshowcase.org/2001/full_papers/phillips/phillips_html/index.html

?

-Eric


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 15:37 Htree concept U.Mutlu
2015-05-13 16:24 ` U.Mutlu
2015-05-13 16:29 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-05-13 17:22   ` U.Mutlu
2015-05-13 17:37     ` U.Mutlu
2015-05-13 21:18       ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-14  2:50         ` U.Mutlu

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