Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:13:46 -0800 (PST) | | From | dean gaudet <> | | | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, 3 November 2006 11:00:58 -0800, dean gaudet wrote:
> >
> > it seems to me that you only need to be able to represent a range of the
> > most recent 65536 crashes... and could have an online process which goes
> > about "refreshing" old objects to move them forward to the most recent
> > crash state. as long as you know the minimm on-disk crash count you can
> > use it as an offset.
>
> You really don't want to go down that path. Doubling the storage size
> will double the work necessary to move old objects - hard to imagine a
> design that scales worse.
there's no doubling of storage size required.
-dean |  |