Major Description
Currently each inode stores its full path in the fsimage. I'd propose to store the local name instead. In order for each inode to identify its parent, all inodes in a directory tree are stored in the image in in-order. This proposal also requires each directory stores the number of its children in image.
This proposal would bring a few benefits as pointed below and therefore speedup the image loading and saving.
- Remove the overhead of converting java-UTF8 encoded local name to string-represented full path then to UTF8 encoded full path when saving to an image and vice versa when loading the image.
- Remove the overhead of traversing the full path when inserting the inode to its parent inode.
- Reduce the number of temporary java objects during the process of image loading or saving and therefore reduce the GC overhead.
- Reduce the size of an image.