Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Hi,
> While using DMU for lustre we need to store some extra information in
> directory entries which is required for lustre operations. The size of
> typical entries to be stored in directory entries are 16 bytes, hence we
> can't use micro zap. And we would like to avoid using fat zap as not
> many entries will be stored.
> Hence we thought about implementing a new ZAP object, something based
> on mzap where all fields except the value field are the same. The format
> would be something like this :
>
> typedef struct new_mzap_ent_phys {
> uint64_t new_mze_value[2];
> uint32_t new_mze_cd;
> uint16_t new_mze_pad; /* in case we want to chain
> them
> someday */
> char new_mze_name[NEW_MZAP_NAME_LEN];
> } new_mzap_ent_phys_t;
>
Sounds reasonable to me.
--matt
