On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Fick wrote: > > > > > > > A better solution would be to maintain a list of > > > dirty blocks and use it during selfheal. > > > > > > > Agreed, but why not make it infinitely granular and > > keep a list of dirty file spans instead of blocks? This should be > extremely space efficient. > > > > Is this complication and extra effort realy worth the benefit over straight > rolling hash rsync approach? It seems to me that applying the rsync method > at read-time would be a fairly minor mod that would solve 99% of the > problem. No extra book-keeping would be required, only a change from copying > the whole file to rsyncing the file. correct, rsync algorithm is the best choice right now. Krishna > > Gordan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
