Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:13:46 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
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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 | |