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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	"Mr. Berkley Shands" <berkley@cse.wustl.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Severe I/O performance regression 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 or 2.6.8-rc3
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:11:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806031153.GO17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806024221.GA19333@hexapodia.org>

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:27:34PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Once we get there, there must be some way to construct intermediate
>> points between those two faithful at the very least to the snapshot
>> ordering if not true chronological ordering.

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:42:21PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Well, the state of the "central tree" is represented by a cset key at
> each point.  So the answer to your question is a list of keys.  But the
> keys in question aren't "special" in any bk sense; they're just some
> keys.  You can keep track of keys outside of BK if you want, to keep a
> history of "state of this tree at time X", but BK can't keep track of
> that info.
> Anyways, maybe an example is in order.
[...]

Sounds like time to put this into Documentation/


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05 17:02 Severe I/O performance regression 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 or 2.6.8-rc3 Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-05 17:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 19:58   ` Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-05 20:46     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 22:33       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-06  0:21         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06  2:09         ` Andy Isaacson
2004-08-06  2:27           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06  2:42             ` Andy Isaacson
2004-08-06  3:11               ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-06  8:33             ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-06  8:51               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 18:02   ` Fast patch for " Mr. Berkley Shands
2004-08-08  8:22     ` Ram Pai
2004-08-16 20:30       ` [PATCH] " Ram Pai
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2004-08-06  0:41 Berkley Shands

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