Re: Re: Perfomance problem backupscript (more details and tests)

[email protected] wrote:

> I meanwhile learned that ZFS is a 128 bit filesystem.
> Nevertheless i found no hint about the distribution
> characteristics of inode numbers. If they are scattered
> over the whole 128-bit number space then 64-bit ino_t
> is still a problem.
> If they increase only if no lower number is ready for
> reuse then 64 bit will give us some time to find a
> better solution (or to install 256 bit Linux, hehe).

ZFS uses a lot of my ideas from wofs from 1990...
e.g. the copy on write idea that never needs fsck.

It does not have inodes but something similar to the
gnodes on my wofs implementation. inodes are just numbers that
are tagged to file meta data.

Jörg

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