Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> I've been poking around on the fs-rep-sharing branch lately to try and
> determine how we can avoid circular deltas when reusing representations.
> For those unfamiliar with the problem, here's a brief synopsis.
> (Apologies if this sounds like a core dump from my brain...)
>
> The purpose of fs-rep-sharing is to eliminate storing duplicate
> representations in the fs. Instead of just writing a representation to
> the database, we first check a cache of checksum->representation-key
> mappings, and see if we can reuse an existing representation. This is
> currently implemented for Berkeley DB.
>
> Because the representations themselves are mutable in BDB (i.e., the
> same representation can be full-text, and later rewritten as a delta
> against another full text), a problem arises where we can get circular
> delta references. Consider the following:
>
> +-----+
> | |
> | |
> | |
> +-----+
> A_1
>
> A_1 is the first representation of the object, so we store the full text.
>
> +-----+ +-----+
> | | delta | |
> | | ----> | |
> | | | |
> +-----+ +-----+
> A_1 A_2
>
> A_2 is a subsequent representation of the object, so we store its full
> text, and store A_1 as a delta against it. Now, imagine we revert back
> to the previous text in a later revision. Without rep-sharing we get:
>
> +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
> | | delta | | delta | |
> | | ----> | | ----> | |
> | | | | | |
> +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
> A_1 A_2 A_3
>
> A_3 is now stored full text and A_2 is a delta against A_3, with A_1
> being unchanged. However, with rep-sharing, we get:
>
> +-------------------------+
> v |
> +-----+ +-----+ |
> | | delta | | delta +-+
> | | ----> | | ----> |o|
> | | | | +-+
> +-----+ +-----+
> A_1 A_2 A_3
Why not have A_3 be full text and A_1 refers to A_3. That way all deltas and
refereneces are from a small revision to a large revisions and you can't have loops?
Blair
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Received on 2008-03-27 17:21:46 CET