Linux Filesystems LOC
Jun 23, 2011, 17:00 (0 Talkback[s])
"The XFS filesystem has taken a beating for being a big,
complicated, foreign filesystem since it's introduction, and there
is no doubt that there is a fair bit of code in there. But an
interesting thing happened on the way to the Linux Kernel v3.0.0 -
XFS developers have steadily reduced lines of code, while other up
and coming filesystems such as Ext4 and BTRFS are steadily growing
in LOC and complexity. And XFS has been under constant improvement
at the same time as well."
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