On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:33:03 +1000 "ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com> wrote: > > To support variable block, metadata needs to be kept for each block. > > > > Since this will be a structure of a handful of bytes for each of > possibly bilions of blocks extended attributes might be suboptimal > for storing this partucular metadata. > > Due to the massive amount of metadata required for the > "per-block-metadata" you probably want a non-extended attributes > method for that. separate file? Mark, can you summarize the requirements of the metadata of ssc? - how much bytes does the metadata need? - can we know how much bytes we will need in the future when we create a ssc file? (or we need to enlarge the metadata as the need arises?) feel free to add new items. > For all other types of metadata, which may be shared with MMC, which > is also a very small amount of metadata, like media-serial-number, > barcode, mam-data etc for those i think extended attributes are > best. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |