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From: "Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando" <gorlando@futuretg.com>
To: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
Cc: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>,
	Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>,
	Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
	Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Reiser4 repackers
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 13:37:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427E161A.40309@futuretg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050508010525.GL8179@gnu.org>

Andrew Clausen wrote:

>On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 08:10:18PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
>  
>
>>>The blocklist is only needed to find the blocks in the nested file,
>>>which is huge.  (I don't know anything about reiser packing, but
>>>things like tail-merging aren't a serious problem.)
>>>      
>>>
>>Yet, it's still a problem.  You want a standardized way to map files to
>>underlying blocks, and before Reiser4, I'd say this was easy.  But now,
>>who knows what the FS does to bastardize the file on the way down?
>>Crypto/compression?  Tail-packing?  Stenography?  The possibilities are
>>endless...
>>    
>>
>
>Can't you disable these things for the special nested file?  You only
>need the block list for one file!
>  
>
This must be fine!


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-08 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-05 11:49 Reiser4 support on parted Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2005-05-05 15:11 ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-05 17:41 ` Jander
2005-05-05 21:01   ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2005-05-05 22:10 ` David Masover
2005-05-05 22:12   ` Andrew Clausen
2005-05-05 23:05     ` David Masover
2005-05-06  0:02       ` Andrew Clausen
2005-05-06  2:29         ` David Masover
2005-05-06  6:19       ` Alex Zarochentsev
2005-05-05 23:31   ` Reiser4 repackers Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-06  2:47     ` David Masover
2005-05-06  3:59       ` Andrew Clausen
2005-05-07  4:41         ` David Masover
2005-05-07 10:25           ` Andrew Clausen
2005-05-08  1:10             ` David Masover
2005-05-08  1:05               ` Andrew Clausen
2005-05-08 13:37                 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando [this message]
2005-05-06  5:06       ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-06  9:31         ` Reiser4 support on parted Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2005-05-06 12:26           ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-06 19:19           ` Vitaly Fertman

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