Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sat May 19 2007 - 12:29:40 EST


On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:17:32PM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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