Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

Kyle Moffett
2007-05-18T01:02:59Z

On May 17, 2007, at 13:45:33, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:26:07PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt
> (jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de) wrote:
>>> My plan was to move this code to lib/ sooner or later. If you
>>> consider it useful in its current state, I can do it immediatly.
>>> And if someone else merged a superior btree library I'd happily
>>> remove mine and use the new one instead.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> Why would we need another btree, when there is lib/rbtree.c? Or
>> does yours do something fundamentally different?
>
> It is not red-black tree, it is b+ tree.

It might be better to use the prefix "bptree" to help prevent
confusion. A quick google search on "bp-tree" reveals only the perl B
+-tree module "Tree::BPTree", a U-Maryland Java CS project on B+-
trees, and a news article about a "BP tree-top protest".

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett