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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net>
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To: nate@sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: Extent like FFS
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Why not incorporate some ideas from Sprite? One feature that seemed to
speed things up in general was the fact that no metadata gets written out
for a newly created file until it has aged 30 seconds. 

It seems to me this could be a win in a couple of ways:

   - Small, tmp files exist only in the buffer cache & never get 
     written to disk if they don't live more that 30 seconds.

   - There out to be a way to queue all the newly created files together
     then write them out together at once after they've lived 'X' amount
     of time.

Where can I find an indepth explanation of how the FFS file system code works?

-joe