Makes perfect sense. No wonder some btrfs folks used to work on reiserfs/4. I hope a solution can be or has been found. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Zhihui Zhang <zzhsuny@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I wish Btrfs well, so I would venture an idea for this specific case >> mentioned by Edward Shishkin today. >> >> Everyone knows that B-tree has internal and leaf nodes. Can we make >> the root as the leaf? In other words, if you >> create a 2K file, the B-tree will have only one node, which is both >> the root and the leaf. Of course, you need some flag to >> say this is a "degenerated" form of B-tree. Please cc me if you want >> my response. > > You need to copy linux-btrfs to reach btrfs developers. > Ccs added > > The problem with your idea is that on btrfs there's only > a single tree for the whole fs (or whole snapshot rather) > So it would only work for a single file because there's > only a single root. > > -Andi > -- > ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
