Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

[Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Do I get it right that you just have in each cnode a pointer to the
> previous & next cnode? But then if two consecutive cnodes get corrupted,
> you have no way to connect the chain, do you? If each cnode contained
> some unique identifier of the file and a number identifying position of
> cnode,  then there would be at least some way (through expensive) to
> link them together correctly...

You're right, it's easy to add a little more redundancy that would
make it possible to recover from two consecutive nodes being
corrupted.  Keeping a parent inode id in each continuation inode is
definitely a smart thing to do.

Some minor side notes: Continuation inodes aren't really in any
defined order - if you look at Jeff's ping-pong chunk allocation
example, you'll see that the data in each continuation inode won't be
in linearly increasing order.  Also, while the current implementation
is a simple doubly-linked list, this may not be the best solution
long-term.  What's important is that each continuation inode have a
back pointer to the parent and that there is some structure for
quickly looking up the continuation inode for a given file offset.
Suggestions for data structures that work well in this situation are
welcome. :)

-VAL