Re: [RFC] Obliterate - FS transaction design

Philipp Marek wrote on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 at 15:15 +0200:
> Should be "easy" to do for BDB (for some values of "easy" ;-); in FSFS you
> might have to rewrite the revs/ file, but with a hole where deleted contents
> have been, so that the file positions stay the same.
>
> (AFAIK addressing of content across revisions is done via byte positions,
> isn't it?)

I don't know how addressing inside a rev file works. But addressing a rev
file inside a pack file *is* done via byte offsets (i.e., we store in the
manifest file the offset of the rev file within the pack file; the pack
file is a straight concatenation of rev files).

Daniel

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Received on 2009-09-22 21:41:05 CEST