Re: [MirageOS-devel] Irmin on BLOCK

[Nik Sultana <ns441@xxxxxxxxx>]

Coincidentally B-trees came up recently on Ocaml-list:
  https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2015-11/msg00011.html


On 2015-11-11 09:58, Rupert Horlick wrote:
> Hmm, it seems like that is built on top of a few packages that don't
> exist any more to interface between Baardskeerder and Mirage.
>
> Do you think it's worth doing a simple B-Tree implementation myself,
> or would it be better to try and build a new interface module for
> Mirage and Baardskeerder?
>
> A B-Tree implementation would certainly be good for the project
> write-up, but let me know what you think.
>
> Rupert
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:58 PM Richard Mortier
> <richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 10 November 2015 at 16:49, Rupert Horlick <rh572@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I'm implementing this for a Part II project, so I've decided to
> > go ahead and
> > > implement my own simple FS for BLOCK, rather than using IRMIN.
> > >
> > > However, I'm coming across the difficulties that Dave mentioned,
> > Simple and in-memory is (surely!) still good to start with though!
> >
> > > so I'm
> > > reading up on B-trees as we speak. I may well end up writing a
> > simple B-tree
> > > library, so I'll let know you if I do.
> > There may be most of such a thing already I think -- Chris
> > Greenhalgh
> > at Nottingham lashed something up a while ago based on
> > Baardskeerder,
> > see https://github.com/cgreenhalgh/ocaml-btree [1] (though based on
> > a much
> > much earlier version of Mirage :)
> >
> > --
> > Richard Mortier
> > richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://github.com/cgreenhalgh/ocaml-btree
>
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