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Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:17:32 +0100
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David Weinehall wrote:
> > It is also the filesystem that tries to scale logarithmically, as Arnd
> > has noted.  Maybe I should call it Log2 to emphesize this point.  Log1
> > would be horrible scalability.
> 
> So, log2fs...  Sounds great to me.

Why Log2?  Logarithmic scaling is just logarithmic scaling.  Does the
filesystem use 2-ary trees or anything else which gives particular
meaning to 2?

-- Jamie

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