LWN: Comments on "The Orlov block allocator" http://lwn.net/Articles/14633/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The Orlov block allocator". hourly 2 The Orlov block allocator http://lwn.net/Articles/14911/rss 2002-11-07T14:29:45+00:00 jlnance I think you have this backwards. The old ext2/3 code always tried to<br>spread directories out. The new code does not EXCEPT for top level<br>directories.