The authors would like to thank all ext2/3 developers who make ext2/3 better, especially grateful to Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Daniel Phillips, and Andreas Gruenbacher for many enlightening discussions and inputs.
We also owe thanks to Ram Pai, Sonny Rao, Laurent Vivier and Avantika Mathur for their help on performance testing and analysis, and to Paul Mckenney, Werner Almesberger, and David L Stevens for paper reviewing and refining. And lastly, thanks to Gerrit Huizenga who encouraged us to finally get around to submitting and writing this paper in the first place.:-)