JFFS3 superblock search

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at yandex.ru
Mon Jun 6 09:45:38 EDT 2005


Jörn Engel wrote:
> You already know that I'm skeptical about the B+ tree.  But I'm even
> more skeptical about a 4-level tree.  That could turn into a
> bottleneck rather quickly.
> 
Joern,

providing the key is 16 bytes and the pointer is 8 bytes, the 4-level 
B-tree is enough for (4096/24)^4 = 170^4 ~1E8. If this isn't enough we 
may use more levels as well.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.





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