From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
mj@ucw.cz, jack@ucw.cz,
"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:15:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040403131539.GA4706@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040403082303.GA1316@elf.ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Could you not change it back to a normal inode when refcount becomes 1?
> >
> > You can only do that if the cowid object has a pointer to the last
> > remaining reference to it. That's possible, but more complicated and
> > would incur a little more I/O per cow operation.
>
> You'd have to have pointers to all references to it... because you
> can't tell in advance which one will be the last to go away.
Exactly. Each of the cow pointers would need to be linked in a doubly
linked list containing them all.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-03 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-20 8:34 [PATCH] cowlinks v2 Jörn Engel
2004-03-20 8:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 11:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-20 19:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-21 12:43 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-21 18:53 ` Jörn Engel
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20040320083411.GA25934@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
2004-03-20 15:03 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-03-20 15:23 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-29 17:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 21:05 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-03-29 23:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-31 14:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-31 14:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-31 15:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02 11:44 ` Tim Connors
2004-04-02 16:54 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-02 18:01 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 18:17 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-02 18:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 19:28 ` Ross Biro
2004-04-02 21:35 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-05 8:12 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 8:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-05 8:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-02 20:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02 21:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 22:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-03 0:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 8:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-03 13:15 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-04-05 8:19 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 8:22 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-03 0:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 1:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 1:21 ` Erik Andersen
2004-04-03 1:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 3:55 ` Ross Biro
2004-04-03 9:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-03 13:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 18:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-03 19:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 20:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-03 21:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-04 8:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-05 8:35 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 9:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-05 9:18 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-05 12:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-05 12:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-05 12:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-05 18:03 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 11:10 ` jlnance
2004-04-05 11:46 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-05 12:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-05 8:43 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-03 19:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-05 8:54 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-05 9:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-20 16:48 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-21 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-21 17:59 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-21 18:14 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-21 20:26 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-21 20:35 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-22 0:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-22 0:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-22 5:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-22 5:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-22 11:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-22 16:02 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-25 17:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-25 18:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-25 19:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-25 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-25 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-01 14:53 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-02 11:54 ` Tim Connors
2004-03-25 21:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-27 10:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-27 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-27 21:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-27 23:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-28 0:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-28 12:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 20:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-28 23:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 1:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-29 12:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 19:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-29 23:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 23:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-29 7:45 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29 9:28 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 12:40 ` Jamie Lokier
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