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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
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Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file
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> 	The big benefits to locality of meta & file data are to allow
> drive/driver caching to do sequential (or close to) reads in as large
> blocks as possible.  There was a recent SigOS paper on a modified Unix
> filesystem that was designed to take advantage of modern disk systems,

Do you still remember the title of that paper and tell me where can I find
it (preferebly online)?

-Zhihui



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