Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-23 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:55:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: There was the theoretical side - ie coming up with a way of defining perfection which then allows measuring against. For example you have going up to a 128K block size but without knowing the theoretical best we don't know if that

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-23 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/01/14 10:36, David Sterba wrote: 'Theoretical best' seems too vaguely defined, It seems like a good thing for someone to tackle as part of a master's thesis :-) with compression it's always some trade-off and compromise Which you can put in

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:50:54PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Hello Tomasz Have you considered per-file/per-directory selection of raid level? Sounds great, I haven't thought about it before. Do you or someone else know what the current state of development is? Is someone working

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:44:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: If you are more interested in the theoretical side then looking into compression would be interesting. ie how close to the theoretical best compression are we. Various filesystems like btrfs and NTFS make all sorts of compromises

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:52:00PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: Maybe this happens already: Might a similar effect be automatically achieved by tracking per-device I/O load averages and distributing reads based on the I/O

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:20:10PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: I haven't done any extensive testing, only streaming writes, and the heuristic just batched writes by a given threshold before switching to another mirror. Load balancing was done without any logic that would look at actual IO load

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:05:33PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:50:54PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Hello Tomasz Have you considered per-file/per-directory selection of raid level? Sounds great, I haven't thought about it before. Do you or someone

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/01/14 04:12, David Sterba wrote: I have done some work here, so far it's stalled due to more important work. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Compression_enhancements Do you have other suggestions beyond what's

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots (

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-21 11:52, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: 3. Improving

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-20 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Hi all I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project ideas at

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-20 Thread Sandy McArthur
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Take_recursive_snapshots ) and

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-19 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/01/14 11:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. One thing I would like see it automatic backup copies of data. For example if you are only using 10% of the total space then make an additional 9 copies of the data

RE: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-18 Thread Toggenburger Lukas
Hello Tomasz Have you considered per-file/per-directory selection of raid level? Sounds great, I haven't thought about it before. Do you or someone else know what the current state of development is? Is someone working on this? Lukas From:

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-17 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:18PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Hi all I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-17 Thread David Sterba
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:18PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Hi all I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of

Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-16 Thread Toggenburger Lukas
Hi all I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project ideas at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and