* a possible path to file system convergence
@ 2010-02-08 21:46 David Nicol
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From: David Nicol @ 2010-02-08 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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when i first read about BTRFS i had a bunch of thoughts which
eventually produced a concept. That concept is, decoupling "extent
management" from other file system features. The resulting vision is a
situation in which persistent storage is obtained with a small suite
of extent allocation syscalls analogous to malloc and free, but
persistent, and these services are both provided and used by compliant
FSes, resulting in the ability to have one file system slosh around to
various spindles in various on-disk formats.
I don't plan on being in Boston in August but if I went that is what I
would try to present on.
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