Xu�n Baldauf writes: > > > Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > [This was posted to reiserfs-dev list today. Please comment.] > > > > Hello, > > > > let me summarize our latest talks about key structure in reiser4. > > > > LAYOUT: > > > > Key is three 64bit integers (24 bytes total) stored on a disk in LE > > format. First integer is "locality", second---"objectid" and third is > > "offset". > > > > [...] > > > > > > Nikita. > > Is it ensured that insert and delete-operations within a file at > byte-granularity are possible with (or independent of) that key layout? I think > that, for this feature, it is required that the "offset" part of a key is not > an offset measured in filesystem blocks (4KB), but an offset measured at least > in byte-granularity. This limits the filesize to 16 ExaBytes. Still enough, I > think. :-)
Yes, you are right, offset is measured in bytes. > > Xu�n. Nikita.
