linux-ext4 - Re: Htree concept

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Message-ID: <55537BF7.8000602@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 11:29:43 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@...luit.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Htree concept

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

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