Re: [RFC] Thing 1: Shardmap fox Ext4

From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Wed Dec 04 2019 - 15:47:48 EST


On 2019-12-04 10:03 a.m., Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> Here is a pretty picture to get started:
>>
>> https://github.com/danielbot/Shardmap/wiki/Shardmap-media-format
>
> The shardmap diagram is good conceptually, but it would be useful
> to add a legend on the empty side of the diagram that shows the on-disk
> structures.

Sounds good, but not sure exactly what you had in mind. Fields of a
shard entry? Fields of the block 0 header? The record entry block has
its own diagram, and is polymorphic anyway, so no fixed format.

Regards,

Daniel