From: Roger Binns <rogerb@rogerbinns.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: price to pay for nocow file bit?
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 12:42:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m8mq49$qo4$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150108165321.GA23339@gardel-login>
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On 01/08/2015 08:53 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> this will help little if we change things in the beginning of the
> file,
Have you considered changing the format so that those pointers are
stored at the end of the file, letting data always be append only?
While it is traditional to have things at the beginning as headers,
there are formats like zip where metadata is stored at the end instead
providing other benefits.
Roger
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-08 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-07 17:43 price to pay for nocow file bit? Lennart Poettering
2015-01-07 20:10 ` Josef Bacik
2015-01-07 21:05 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2015-01-07 22:06 ` Josef Bacik
2015-01-08 6:30 ` Duncan
2015-01-10 12:00 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-10 12:23 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-08 8:24 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-08 8:35 ` Koen Kooi
2015-01-08 13:30 ` Lennart Poettering
2015-01-08 18:24 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2015-01-08 18:48 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2015-01-09 15:52 ` David Sterba
2015-01-10 10:30 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-11 20:39 ` Chris Murphy
2015-01-08 15:56 ` Zygo Blaxell
2015-01-08 16:53 ` Lennart Poettering
2015-01-08 18:36 ` Zygo Blaxell
2015-01-09 15:41 ` David Sterba
2015-01-09 16:14 ` Zygo Blaxell
2015-01-08 20:42 ` Roger Binns [this message]
2015-01-15 19:06 ` Chris Mason
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