Re: Severe I/O performance regression 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 or 2.6.8-rc3

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:27:34PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Once we get there, there must be some way to construct intermediate
>> points between those two faithful at the very least to the snapshot
>> ordering if not true chronological ordering.

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:42:21PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Well, the state of the "central tree" is represented by a cset key at
> each point.  So the answer to your question is a list of keys.  But the
> keys in question aren't "special" in any bk sense; they're just some
> keys.  You can keep track of keys outside of BK if you want, to keep a
> history of "state of this tree at time X", but BK can't keep track of
> that info.
> Anyways, maybe an example is in order.
[...]

Sounds like time to put this into Documentation/


-- wli
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