UFS Subdirectory limit.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <868y49w5lk.fsf at xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:
>Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
>>                            It would be much more worthwhile to introduce
>> a UFS3 that uses a more efficient directory layout (B-tree?) to provide
>> real value to increasing the nlink limitation.
>
>It would be even more worthwile to simply adopt an existing well-
>designed and well-tested file system, such as IBM JFS.

Even better:  Do both and then on top of it encourage further
research into filesystems which take modern usage of computing
systems into account :-)

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