linux-ext4 - Re: Space Maps?

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Message-ID: <547350F3.4050208@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:38:27 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Holger Hoffstätte 
	<holger.hoffstaette@...glemail.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Space Maps?

On 11/24/14 9:33 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:43:51PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
>>
>> Cleaning out some old research papers I came again across the proposal
>> for "space maps" in ext4 [1]. What happened to that? Was it rejected
>> due to too much risk or other technical reasons? The benefits sound
>> appealing, so I was wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong
>> with the suggested approach.
> 
> No one ever submitted patches.

Was just checking that too. I'm always mystified by the folks who take the
time to write & submit & present papers, but don't submit patches.

-Eric

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