On 12/26/2016 11:52 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
wrote:
Simplify tape block format.
No more indirect blocks. The blocks form a linked list instead.
There is still one remaining reference to indirect blocks that you
missed in comments above Lo
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
wrote:
> Simplify tape block format.
>
> No more indirect blocks. The blocks form a linked list instead.
There is still one remaining reference to indirect blocks that you
missed in comments above LogicalTapeRewindForWrite().
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Peter Geogheg
Simplify tape block format.
No more indirect blocks. The blocks form a linked list instead.
This saves some memory, because we don't need to have a buffer in memory to
hold the indirect block (or blocks). To reflect that, TAPE_BUFFER_OVERHEAD
is reduced from 3 to 1 buffer, which allows using more
