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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jamie Lokier" <jamie@shareable.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT PATCH COW] proof of concept impementation of cowlinks
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:29:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405121529.26883.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040509215351.GA15307@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:53, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > I don't know how to handle this now. Introducing cow-inode number
> > with semantic "cowino1==cowino2 => files are cowlinked" is
> > ugly and won't deal with per-block cow. Sooner or later someone
> > will want to have per block cow. Think about cow'ing multi-gigabyte
> > database files for checkpointing/backup purposes...
>
> Well, if only block 17 is cowlink-shared between two files, I guess
> userspace does not want to know... And I think that cow-inode number
> *can* handle all other cases.

I remember somebody had a toy to find out the file block ranges (on ext2/ext3 
anyway), which could detect fragmentation and holes and such.  Presumably, 
whatever they did would already detect per-block cowlinks, if anybody 
actually cared...

Rob



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-17 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06 13:17 [ANNOUNCEMENT PATCH COW] proof of concept impementation of cowlinks Jörn Engel
2004-05-06 13:18 ` [PATCH COW] generic_sendpage Jörn Engel
2004-05-06 13:19 ` [PATCH COW] sendfile Jörn Engel
2004-05-06 13:19 ` [PATCH COW] copyfile Jörn Engel
2004-05-06 13:20 ` [PATCH COW] lock_flags Jörn Engel
2004-05-06 13:21 ` [PATCH COW] MAD COW Jörn Engel
2004-05-08 13:45 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT PATCH COW] proof of concept impementation of cowlinks Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-08 22:10   ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-09 14:09     ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-09 21:53       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-10 15:44         ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-10 15:51           ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-10 15:56             ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-12  0:26           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-05-13 10:56             ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-12 20:29         ` Rob Landley [this message]
2004-05-08 22:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-10 15:53   ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-10 19:26     ` Jan Harkes
2004-05-11 10:02       ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-11 14:08         ` Jan Harkes
2004-05-11 14:18           ` Jan Harkes
2004-05-11 14:33           ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-21 23:23           ` Rob Landley
2004-05-25 22:46             ` Jan Harkes
2004-05-11 15:40         ` Steve French
2004-05-11 15:58           ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-10  5:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-10 15:59   ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-12 16:39 ` Rob Landley
2004-05-20 13:49   ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-25 21:55     ` Rob Landley
2004-05-25 22:08       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-25 23:16         ` Rob Landley
2004-05-26  0:16           ` Ian Stirling
2004-05-26  9:52           ` Jörn Engel

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