Re: [BK] [PATCH] reiserfs changeset 7 of 7 to include into 2.4 tree

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 15:52:24 EST


Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> This changeset implements new block allocator for reiserfs and adds one
> more tail policy. This is a product of continuous NAMESYS research in this
> area. This piece of code incorporates work by Alexander Zarochencev,
> Jeff Mahoney and Oleg Drokin.

What Christoph said ;)

Block allocation algorithms are really, really important. I'd be very interested
in a description of what this change does, what problems it is solving, how it
solves them, observed results, testing methodology, etc. Is such a thing
available?

Thanks.
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