Re: price to pay for nocow file bit?

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On 01/08/2015 08:53 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> this will help little if we change things in the beginning of the
> file,

Have you considered changing the format so that those pointers are
stored at the end of the file, letting data always be append only?

While it is traditional to have things at the beginning as headers,
there are formats like zip where metadata is stored at the end instead
providing other benefits.

Roger

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