On Thu, Aug 19, 13:16, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:10:17PM +0200, Andre Noll wrote: > > Silly question: Would it be possible to simply mmap a large enough > > file for the data and and use e.g. rbtrees for the lookups? If yes, > > osl [1] could probably be an option. It's very simple but likely too > > slow on inserts to be useful for e2fsprogs. > > As I recall, you're on a 32-bit machine, right? Right. > If so, a limitation you may run into is simply running out of address > space. If it's not an address space issue, we don't need to mmap > anything; you could just try enabling swap, and use the existing > e2fsck code. > > (I had assumed you had tried that before suggesting you use the > scratch_files tdb approach....) Yes, I added 50G of swap (which is of course kind of silly) before my first posting. This did not help, so I guess it is an address space issue. My question about mmap was about an alternative to tdb btw. Thanks Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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