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Re: radix tree implementation for quota ?



On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:53:59 +0100
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> One open question is how to store quota informations on disk.
> At this time we use one big array indexed by uid or gid. This can
> be very space-consuming if you have a very sparse uid/gid allocation,
> this is why I don't think this simple format is suitable any more
> (especially with 32bits uid/gid, and 64bit storage for various values).
> Linux uses a radix tree for this, and I coudln't come up with a better idea :)

Wouldn't a hash table work?


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