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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: vm/fs meetup details
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:40:57 -0400
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David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:40:08PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
>>> - repair driven design, we know what it is (Val told us), but
>>>  how does it apply to the things we are currently working on?
>>>  should we do more of it?
>> I'm sure Chris and I could talk about the design elements in btrfs  
>> that should aid repair if folks are interested in hearing about  
>> them.  We'd keep the hand-waving to a minimum :).
> 
> And I'm sure I could provide a counterpoint by talking about
> the techniques we've used improving XFS repair speed and
> scalability without needing to change any on disk formats....

Sounds like that could be an interesting discussion.

Especially when trying to answer questions like:

"At what filesystem size will the mitigating fixes no
  longer be enough?"

and

"When will people start using filesystems THAT big?"  :)

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