linux-ext4 - Re: Proposed design for big allocation blocks for ext4

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Message-ID: <20110226003319.GD28214@noexit>
Date:	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:33:20 -0800
From:	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed design for big allocation blocks for ext4

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:31:40PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:03:04PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> > > We could add complexity to do suballocations for directories, but KISS
> > > seems to be a much better idea for now.
> > 
> > 	Oh dear God no.
> 
> What are you saying no to?  KISS or suballocations?  :-)

	You know the answer to that ;-)  Though if you ever do smoke
some crack and design suballocations, ocfs2 will happily steal them.

Jool

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