The ABI status of filesystem formats
The ABI status of filesystem formats
Posted Oct 8, 2020 17:46 UTC (Thu) by sbaugh (guest, #103291)Parent article: The ABI status of filesystem formats
Triplett's library sounds interesting and somewhat-generally-useful, actually. Repeating the description here:
>The short version is that I needed a library to rapidly turn
>dynamically-obtained data into a set of disk blocks to be served
>on-the-fly as a software-defined disk, and then mounted on the other
>side of that interface by the Linux kernel. Turns out that's *many
>orders of magnitude* faster than any kind of network filesystem like
>NFS. It's slightly similar to a vvfat for ext4. The less blocks it can
>generate and account for and cache, the faster it can run, and
>microseconds matter.
It's an unusual use case, but it doesn't seem like one which is totally unacceptable. I could imagine using it myself. It would be nice to see it upstreamed to e2fsprogs.