linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

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Message-ID: <20070519161732.GA14324@mail.shareable.org>
Date:	Sat, 19 May 2007 17:17:32 +0100
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

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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