On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The case has been made on Phoronix for F-Trees: They makes use hard > drive speeds, not (relatively slow) access times; beat SSD's; and scale > perfectly across multiple cores with hundreds of millions of entries. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TokuDB#Fractal_tree_indexes > > How TokuDB Fractal Tree Databases Work > > Via: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NjM > > Time for someone to get started on ftrfs? Or can it be implemented > in Btrfs? > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43004 whoa, very cool stuff. fractals are awesome, cool to see them in use. ... 2010/11, surprised i never heard of it before now. thanks for the reference/links at the very least! aside: i once described fractals to my grandmother (100% devout catholic) as related to my own understanding of the universe -- specifically, i pointed out how their often simple mathematical identity fragments into an infinitely self-similar pattern of seemingly unbounded complexity -- she told me i was describing god ... and, well, we agreed :-) -- C Anthony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
