On Mon, 2 July 2007 08:19:44 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Regarding numbers, there are about a dozen so far which is good > but not as many filesystem maintainers as I had hoped (do they > tend not to get invited to KS?). We may get a few more people yet > so I think if we try to get a room to fit 20-25 people it would > be ideal: I don't want to turn anyone away ;) I'm interested. My particular pet subject would be sync behaviour. LogFS benefits from writing data in a particular order - data first, then indirect blocks, doubly indirect, triply, etc. Reason is that indirect blocks get dirtied when data is written. The current solution is to write indirect blocks immediatly, causing quite bad performance. Jörn -- Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest. -- Rob Pike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
