On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:20:42PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > The same for directories - NVFS hashes the file name and uses radix-tree > to locate a directory page where the directory entry is located. XFS > b+trees would result in much more accesses than the radix-tree. What? Radix trees behave _horribly_ badly when indexed by a hash. If you have a 64-bit hash and use 8 bits per level of the tree, you have to traverse 8 pointers to get to your destination. You might as well use a linked list!
