Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965290AbWKDLNs (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 06:13:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965294AbWKDLNr (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 06:13:47 -0500 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org ([207.7.145.18]:8872 "EHLO twinlark.arctic.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965290AbWKDLNr (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 06:13:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:13:46 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel cc: Mikulas Patocka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New filesystem for Linux In-Reply-To: <20061104105302.GB16991@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Message-ID: References: <20061102235920.GA886@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20061104105302.GB16991@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="131011217-1459634866-1162638826=:28640" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 30 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --131011217-1459634866-1162638826=:28640 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, J?rn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 3 November 2006 11:00:58 -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > > > > it seems to me that you only need to be able to represent a range of the > > most recent 65536 crashes... and could have an online process which goes > > about "refreshing" old objects to move them forward to the most recent > > crash state. as long as you know the minimm on-disk crash count you can > > use it as an offset. > > You really don't want to go down that path. Doubling the storage size > will double the work necessary to move old objects - hard to imagine a > design that scales worse. there's no doubling of storage size required. -dean --131011217-1459634866-1162638826=:28640-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/