Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-23 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/01/14 10:36, David Sterba wrote: > 'Theoretical best' seems too vaguely defined, It seems like a good thing for someone to tackle as part of a master's thesis :-) > with compression it's always some trade-off and compromise Which you can put i

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-23 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:55:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: > There was the theoretical side - ie coming up with a way of defining > perfection which then allows measuring against. For example you have > going up to a 128K block size but without knowing the theoretical best we > don't know if tha

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/01/14 04:12, David Sterba wrote: > I have done some work here, so far it's stalled due to more important > work. > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Compression_enhancements > > Do you have other suggestions beyond what's

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:05:33PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:50:54PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > > Hello Tomasz > > > > > Have you considered per-file/per-directory selection of raid level? > > > > Sounds great, I haven't thought about it before. > > > > Do y

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:20:10PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > I haven't done any extensive testing, only streaming writes, and the > heuristic just batched writes by a given threshold before switching to > another mirror. Load balancing was done without any logic that would > look at actual IO l

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:52:00PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > > > Maybe this happens already: Might a similar effect be automatically > > > achieved by tracking per-device I/O load averages and distributing > > > reads based on

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:44:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: > If you are more interested in the theoretical side then looking into > compression would be interesting. ie how close to the theoretical best > compression are we. Various filesystems like btrfs and NTFS make all > sorts of compromise

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-22 Thread David Sterba
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:50:54PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > Hello Tomasz > > > Have you considered per-file/per-directory selection of raid level? > > Sounds great, I haven't thought about it before. > > Do you or someone else know what the current state of development is? > Is someone

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-21 11:52, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >> On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn >>> wrote: On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > 3. Improvin

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > > wrote: > >> > >> On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > >>> 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recu

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-21 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-21 01:42, Sandy McArthur wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > wrote: >> >> On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: >>> 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots ( >>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Take

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-20 Thread Sandy McArthur
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > > On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > > 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots ( > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Take_recursive_snapshots > > ) and taking snapshots

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-20 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > Hi all > > I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a > research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. > One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project ideas at >

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-19 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/01/14 11:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. One thing I would like see it automatic backup copies of data. For example if you are only using 10% of the total space then make an additional 9 copies of the data

RE: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-18 Thread Toggenburger Lukas
m: linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org [linux-btrfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org] on behalf of Tomasz Torcz [to...@pipebreaker.pl] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 5:04 PM To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:18PM +, Togg

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-17 Thread David Sterba
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:18PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > Hi all > > I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides > working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for > my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the > list of

Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-17 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:18PM +, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > Hi all > I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as > a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. > One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of proj

Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

2014-01-16 Thread Toggenburger Lukas
Hi all I'm a student of ICT currently doing my master's degree besides working as a research assistant. Currently I'm looking for topics for my master thesis. One of my ideas was to work on Btrfs. I studied the list of project ideas at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and a