From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 6 14:20:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD0A14C3F; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from mini.acl.lanl.gov (root@mini.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.34]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA500918; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:20:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by mini.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20531; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:20:13 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: mini.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:20:13 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@mini.acl.lanl.gov To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > I am doing some research on filesystem. I guess it may be faster to put > the disk inode with its file data together so that both can be read into > memory in one I/O. I still don't get it. To get the file, you do a lookup. So the inode is in memory. The you call the handler for the executable. But the inode is in memory at this point .... what am I missing? ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message