On Tue, 1 April 2008 12:46:12 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
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> Jörn Engel wrote:
> >Write-back of data: currently not.
> 
> Taking into account this, bad block handling and other stuff I kindly ask 
> you
> not to do these "tricky" things like comparing amount of code lines.
> I believe if you implement all the things, you'll have _way_ more code. I
> believe you'll even have to re-design many things because write-back really
> affects the design a lot. Let's be fair.

Take those numbers with as much salt as you like.  Implementing
write-back caching for metadata actually reduced the line count by 100
or so.  And it did affect the design a lot, I agree.

Jörn

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