-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/2015 08:53 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > this will help little if we change things in the beginning of the > file,
Have you considered changing the format so that those pointers are stored at the end of the file, letting data always be append only? While it is traditional to have things at the beginning as headers, there are formats like zip where metadata is stored at the end instead providing other benefits. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlSu68gACgkQmOOfHg372QSn5wCfaRAfI/xN3SHiDEPNMjjAuFQB NbcAn2GCjzZyfHocF7yTKEBFdt3znD6n =KL2f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
