Daniel Berlin writes:
>
> On Apr 7, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>
> > Mattias Engdegård writes:
> >> - Put dir-props and dir-prop-base into entries as well.
> >
> > This is normally just one extra file per directory. It will mean that
> > we will have to read and rewrite the dirprops every time we want to
> > update the entries file. NOte that the working props file is gone in
> > 1.4 unless there actually *are* property modifications. The same
> > holds for files.
> >
> >> - Combine all prop-files into one single file: Any file with
> >> properties will
> >> take a full disk block for each prop-file (two per file), in
> >> addition to
> >> the inodes (which are not free either, contrary to common belief).
> >> And it gets even worse when running SELinux[*].
> >
> > Two files is no noe, so the situation has improved. The problem with
> > combining all props into one file is that changing one property will
> > mean that we rewrite all properties just to set one property, which
> > might be a problem if you use large properties.
>
> This is only true if you use the file format we have now.
> The reality is we should stop using formats like that anyway (be it
> through using sqlite, or even some smarter text format).
We've been through this before, don't we? :-)
I agree, but don't see how that would happen in the near future.
Best,
//Peter
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Received on Tue Apr 11 10:53:59 2006