Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:23:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost Message-ID: <200104160123.f3G1NUU72793@earth.backplane.com> References: <20010416004324.D6F7D3811@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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:It is my understanding that with the new directory layout strategies, this
:will be improved somewhat. ie: a single page is much more likely to cache
:up to 8 directories.
:
:Cheers,
:-Peter
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:Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
:"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
Only in the drive's own cache. Our VM Page cache is object-oriented,
meaning that even though directories may be packed in the filesystem,
they will not be packed in the buffer cache / VM Page cache.
-Matt
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