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Commit 0c638f70 authored by Gao Xiang's avatar Gao Xiang
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erofs: drop all vle annotations for runtime names

VLE was an old informal name of fixed-sized output
compression which came from published ATC'19 paper [1].

Drop those old annotations since erofs can handle
all encoded clusters in block-aligned basis, which
is wider than fixed-sized output compression after
larger clustersize feature is fully implemented.

Unaligned encoding won't be considered in EROFS
since it's not friendly to inplace I/O and perhaps
decompression inplace.

a) Fixed-sized output compression with 16KB pcluster:
  ___________________________________
 |xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|
 |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___| physical blocks

b) Block-aligned fixed-sized input compression with
   16KB pcluster:
  ___________________________________
 |xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxx00000|
 |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___| physical blocks

c) Block-unaligned fixed-sized input compression with
   16KB compression unit:
  ____________________________________________
 |..xxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|x.......|
 |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___|___ 4___| physical blocks

Refine better names for those as well.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/gao

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191108033733.63919-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarChao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
parent b858a484
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