[Lustre-devel] storing SOM epoch in EA

[Yuriy Umanets]

Alex Zhuravlev wrote:
> Yuriy Umanets wrote:
>   
>> Yes, this is what I understand as well. And we were discussing that EA 
>> approach has some downsides. In fact what you propose, that is, store it 
>> in EA is logical taking into account that epoch is kind of extension to 
>> inode fields. It is property of inode-object. It is logical to store it 
>> with inode, I see your point. But as we saw, this has/may have some 
>> downsides which may be solved with IAM. Just take this in mind when you 
>> think/work on it. I do not see why IAM is such a bad here.
>>     
>
> 1) additional seek(s)
> 2) shared structure (additional cost on concurrent access)
> 3) inode is already 512 bytes
>
>   
Agreed, but this is all not measured and may happen that IAM is not 
worse but more handy in many respects.

Thanks.
> thanks, Alex
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