Jeffrey Mahoney wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > >You make this way too complicated because you are trying to be way too > >perfect. If you scan 3 bitmap blocks and find nothing, stop trying to > >size match. > > > Agreed on the trying too hard..
What about the actual algorithm suggested? > I think we can find a better, less > "perfect" solution. I wrote that email on Friday on my notebook and it > couldn't connect. It managed to do so this evening. I spent the weekend > experimenting with the idea, and while I came up with something that > worked, it wasn't really usable. The memory footprint was much too large > to be worthwhile. For some fragmentation patterns, it would work. The > worst case scenario was totally intolerable. > > -Jeff > > -- > Jeff Mahoney > SUSE Labs >
