Re: [MirageOS-devel] Irmin on BLOCK

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems that Dave has been busy:

https://github.com/djs55/ocaml-btree

(sorry Dave if I spoiled your future announcement)

Thomas


> On 11 Nov 2015, at 15:28, Nik Sultana <ns441@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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