Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Uncached lookups in particular are very slow because directories are 
> essentially a huge hash table.  You might have to seek through several 
> siblings in a bucket to get to the target file.
> 
> They seem to have designed for online recovery with checksumming and
> mirroring of every FS object.  This module updates these, but it does
> not do any online checking/repair.  I have written an mkfs/fsck, though.

This is actually quite interesting. Checksuming filesystem sounds
pretty useful.

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