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* Htree?
@ 2012-07-01 21:18 Nelson, John R
  2012-07-02 16:36 ` Htree? Eric Sandeen
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From: Nelson, John R @ 2012-07-01 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ext4

hello, 

 exactly what is an Htree? I noticed EXT3/4 uses those, for directorys and extents (ext4). Are they some sort of B+tree?

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* Re: Htree?
  2012-07-01 21:18 Htree? Nelson, John R
@ 2012-07-02 16:36 ` Eric Sandeen
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From: Eric Sandeen @ 2012-07-02 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nelson, John R; +Cc: linux-ext4

On 07/01/2012 04:18 PM, Nelson, John R wrote:
> hello, 
> 
>  exactly what is an Htree? I noticed EXT3/4 uses those, for directorys and extents (ext4). Are they some sort of B+tree?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htree and references therein, in
particular:

http://www.linuxshowcase.org/2001/full_papers/phillips/phillips_html/index.html

-Eric

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