[dm-devel] Re: [patch] fix allocator for exception cache

[Dave Olien]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:58:07PM -0700, Dave Olien wrote:
> 
> Here's a trivial patch to the allocator for the exception_cache.
> I've been playing with creating a 100gigabyte logical volume,
> creating a snapshot, then, runing mkfs.ext2 on the origin volume.
> This creates approximately 1,316,000 exceptions.
> 

actually, there were 658,106 exceptions.  I miscounted
the first time.  So about 10 megabytes of memory were used, assuming
16 bytes per exception.