[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm snapshot: add allocated metadata to snapshot status

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Fri Oct 9 12:04:00 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:45:09PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> I'm thinking a formula more like:
>   ((current_area - 2) / (exceptions_per_area + 1) + 3
> for the number of metadata chunks.
 
But no - current_area already takes account of the factor (exceptions_per_area
+ 1).

So just current_area + 3?

(The first is 0, plus 2 for the header.)

Alasdair




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