Re: [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs!

Ming Lin
2015-07-22T05:11:14Z

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 19:10 -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> BTW - probably the most valuable thing you could help out with is the
>> documentation, in particular the guide:
>> http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/BcacheGuide/
>>
>> Can you read through (at least some of) that, and tell me what's useful and what
>> needs clarifying? And tell me what you'd like to see added to the guide next -
>> I'll try and work on documentation over the next two weeks, since I probably
>> won't be able to do much real coding with my test machines offline.
>
> Yes, I'll read through that.

Would you add some example to explain how the extents/inodes/dirents are stored
in the btree on disk?

I'm reading the debug code in drivers/md/bcache/debug.c.
It seems helpful to learn about the internal btree structure.

Thanks.