Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:21:26 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
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On Fri, 3 November 2006 12:56:36 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > >I am fully aware the counters are effectively 48-bit. If they were > >just 32-bit, you would likely have hit the problem yourself already. > > Given the seek time 0.01s, 31-bit value would last for minimum time of 248 > days when doing only syncs and nothing else. 47-bit value will last for > reasonably long.
So you can at most do one transaction per drive seek? That would definitely solve the overflow case, but hardly sounds like a high-performance filesystem. :)
Jörn
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