On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:44:37AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > I'm so-so on this.
>
> Not that way! It's a good thing that people have different experiences
> and hence viewpoints. Maybe the concept of PFN sharing are
> straightforward to you, while I have been playing with seq_file a lot.
>
> > On the downside:
> >
> > - requires lots of parsing
> > - isn't random-access
> > - probably significantly slower than pagemap
>
> That could be true. Maybe some user with huge datasets will give us
> some idea about the performance. I don't know, maybe it's application
> dependent.
>
> Anyway I don't think it's fair to merge a binary interface without the
> challenge from a textual one ;)
Yes, that's why I didn't say I hated it.
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