Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Nate, please comment on your notion of having list all functionality,
and how allowing cycles could be ok under such a scenario.

Hans

Chester R. Hosey wrote:

>Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
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>>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.
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>Just a suggestion from the uninformed peanut gallery...
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>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?
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>Chet
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