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This article is the second in a series on the design of the Reiser4 filesystem. The first article [LJ, December 2002] defined basic concepts: trees, nodes and items. This article explains why balanced ...

One way of organizing information is to put it into trees. When we organize information in a computer, we typically sort it into piles called nodes, with a name (pointer) for each pile. Some of the ...