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:
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|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxx00000|
|___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___| physical blocks
c) Block-unaligned fixed-sized input compression with
16KB compression unit:
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|..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: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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