Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: What is needed to build an AFS fileserver on top of BTRFS?

2013-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 17:47 +, David Howells wrote: Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: (1) 64-bit data version numbers that increase monotonically with each write. Yes, this is likely to cause some performance degredation as it introduces an ordering over data writes and

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: What is needed to build an AFS fileserver on top of BTRFS?

2013-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 17:40 +, David Howells wrote: Chris Mason c...@fb.com wrote: Hmmm, what exactly are vnodes? Could we put them in xattrs? vnode numbers are AFS's equivalent of inode numbers. Since they're one per file, they could be the object filename. Yes, in fact, the