[Lustre-devel] storing SOM epoch in EA

[Alex Zhuravlev <Alex.Zhuravlev@Sun.COM>]

Yuriy Umanets wrote:
> I did not mean to put whole inode in IAM. I meant only put there fid as 
> key and epoch as value. So way to access epoch is shorter with IAM as no 
> need to load inode. But these all need to be well thought as all your 
> mention more seeks, new reads, etc.

I don't understand benefits of this approach. the idea is to pack frequently
accessed data together so that we don't need additional seeks and load/store
these data with a single contiguous IO.

thanks, Alex