From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 26 9: 8:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCEB37BDE8 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:08:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA25803; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:08:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:44:04 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Alex Povolotsky Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C-FFS anyone? In-Reply-To: <20000226162255.A23927@over.ru> 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 Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hello! > > I've just read (well, partially) a whitepaper named "Embedded Inodes and > Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files" (don't have > URL at hand). > > Ideas presented there are QUIT interesting. Did anyone tried to implement > them in BSD? > I read the paper a while ago. Over the years people have been trying to improve disk bandwidth using locality. But I do not see if there is any big room left to continue in this direction. Plus, everything has tradeoffs. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message