On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:11:11PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Ming Lin <mlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 19:10 -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > >> BTW - probably the most valuable thing you could help out with is the > >> documentation, in particular the guide: > >> http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/BcacheGuide/ > >> > >> Can you read through (at least some of) that, and tell me what's useful and what > >> needs clarifying? And tell me what you'd like to see added to the guide next - > >> I'll try and work on documentation over the next two weeks, since I probably > >> won't be able to do much real coding with my test machines offline. > > > > Yes, I'll read through that. > > Would you add some example to explain how the extents/inodes/dirents are stored > in the btree on disk? Can you be more specific? Like how inodes/dirents map to keys in the btree, or how it all ends up on disk? The inodes/dirents code is pretty short, I'd look at inode.c and dirent.c > I'm reading the debug code in drivers/md/bcache/debug.c. > It seems helpful to learn about the internal btree structure. Are you interested in more the format of the btree node itself, on disk? Like struct btree_node, struct btree_node_entry, struct bset, and the packing? I could try and elaborate on that in the guide, give me some specific questions to cover if you've got any -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html