Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for TUX2 | Date | Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:54:24 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:16, Ph. Marek wrote: > >> If a file's data has been changed, it suffices to update the inode and > >> the of free blocks bitmap (fbb). > >> But updating them in one go is not possible > > > >You seem to have missed some fundamental understanding of > >exactly how phase tree works; the wohle point of phase > >tree is to make atomic updates like this possible! > > Well, my point was, that with several thousand inodes spread over the disk > it won't always be possible to update the inode AND the fbb in one go. > So I proposed the 2nd inode with generation counter!
The cool thing is, it *is* possible, read how here:
http://nl.linux.org/~phillips/tux2/phase.tree.tutorial.html
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