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

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Message-ID: <20070519162714.GA7383@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Sat, 19 May 2007 20:27:15 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Cc:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	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

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:17:32PM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@...reable.org) wrote:
> > 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?

Sizes used in on-disk format are rounded to the nearest power-of-two.

> -- Jamie

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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