Re: LogFS merge

Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02T17:18:26Z

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
> not being familiar with either maintaining my own git tree or the -next
> process, I'd still like to get logfs into mainline. It has gone through
> six rounds of reviews and the last has been mostly about crossing some
> i's here and dotting some t's there.

The thing I'd like to see is:

- a more recent description of file system layout

I've read the original paper, and I assume things have changed when
implementing stuff. They always do.

- some benchmarks and/or comments about regular usage (ie fragmentation
etc). Yeah, it doesn't need to be all that extensive, but quite
frankly, it sounds like this is meant to be at least a partial
replacement for a GP filesystem (considering that seek/rotational
delay are going away) and people are working on it with USB memory
sticks etc, wouldn't it make sense to talk about disk usage (how much
the GC wants free etc) and everyday performance?

Hmm?

Linus