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From: "Chester R. Hosey" <chosey@nauticom.net>
Subject: Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:43:29 -0400
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Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Although I freely acknowledge my inexperience, I believe the real problems are 
> related to graph traversal algorithms. Linus has commented on the obvious 
> hardlink issues. I imagine there are more gremlins lurking in the shadows on 
> this one. Garbage collectors have largely given up on reference counting, a 
> luxury afforded by blazingly fast access to small amounts of storage. I am 
> not particularly up on the research though.

Just a suggestion from the uninformed peanut gallery...

Hans already plans on having a repacker, which will run incrementally in
the background. Might it make sense to do incremental GC, possibly even
in combination with the repacker's traversal of the disk?

Chet