Hello LC! On Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008, [email protected] wrote: ... > Is it only me thinking that this is a silly way of handling > such things on a block oriented filesystem (preferably > supporting sparse blocks)? Shouldn't you be able to: > - insert/prepend a chunk of data into a file > - remove a chunk from a file > - move a chunk from one file into another Well, if such things are possible, it would only be a small step to make "copy this chunk of data to the other file, and let it start from some offset", with COW semantics.
And IIRC there was some talk about using extents in several "versions" of the filesystem in parallel (with COW) - so this idea would simply say that we need COW within a *single* version, too. Regards, Phil _______________________________________________ Tux3 mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.tux3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux3
