Cleaning out some old research papers I came again across the proposal for "space maps" in ext4 [1]. What happened to that? Was it rejected due to too much risk or other technical reasons? The benefits sound appealing, so I was wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong with the suggested approach. Holger [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2010/ols2010-pages-121-132.pdf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html