Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:30:20 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The VIVA file system (fwd) Message-ID: <199608250730.AAA07494@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 25 Aug 96 03:35:19 %2B0000. <199608250335.DAA21536@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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>Anybody have opinions on this vs LFS? Are we still waiting for the Lite-2 >stuff, before LFS can go in? The fact that they claim extraordinary performance for a filesystem that sounds like it's only about a third implemented? ;-) Remember the last 10% and 90% of the time/effort... [...] >indirect blocks. Benchmark results of our implementation of VIVA in the >Linux kernel show that it is much faster than Ext2, the default Linux >filesystem, for common file operations. >The Linux implementation of VIVA is a "work in progress". It does not >yet handle partitions larger than 64M (so that the allocation bitmap >fits readily in memory). Individual files are limited to about 8M >(inodes currently have only a single indirect block). There are no >fragments; block size is restricted to 1K. (Adding logical blocks of >larger size will relieve some of these limitations.) So, what is it good for besides development and benchmarks? :-) I'll be more impressed when I see the finished product benchmarked against something else. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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