[Lustre-devel] storing SOM epoch in EA
Alex Zhuravlev
Alex.Zhuravlev at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 19 04:13:08 PST 2008
btw, are you proposing to store LOV in global IAM?
thanks, Alex
Yuriy Umanets wrote:
> Seriously, IMHO what is bad about EAs:
>
> 1. You need to control their size, you need to bother;
> 2. Large-fast inodes make create/lookup slow. You need to load this
> thing to memory after all. I think this is complement to additional
> seeks caused by IAM;
> 3. Storing epoch in EA makes you use this chain to access epoch:
> fid->inode->epoch (in EA), IAM makes it shorter: fid->epoch (in IAM);
> 4. Large inodes consume more RAM;
> 5. There others... but they are less related to technical
> downsides/advantages so I will omit them.
>
> Thanks.
>
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