On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 01:39 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > [trim ccs] > > Feel free to ignore this diversion ;) I'd like to see btrfs go upstream > sooner rather than later. But eventually we'll have to resurrect fsblock > vs extent map discussion. > There's extent_map, extent_state and extent_buffer. I'd expect the mapping code to beat fsblock, since it more closely models the conditions of the disk format. This is a very thin layer of code to figure out which file offset goes to which block on disk. extent_state is a different beast, since it is trying to track state across extents. It is entirely possible that we're better off keeping the state in the pages, aside from the part where we're running out of bits. extent_buffers are an api to access/modify the contents of ranges of bytes, supporting larger and smaller blocksizes than the page. I'd be really interested in comparing this to fsblock, but I need to first fix it to actually support larger and smaller blocksizes than the page ;) So, long term we can have a benchmarking contest, but I've got a little ways to go before that is a good idea. -chris -- 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
