Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:33:46 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <a.reilly@lake.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with understand file system performance Message-ID: <19990814073346.A38606@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <199908132050.NAA17293@usr01.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:50:39PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990812202049.1878A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <199908132050.NAA17293@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:50:39PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > I am becoming convinced that an intermediate abstraction is really > what is called for, to turn the bottom end into what is, in effect, > nothing more than a flat, numeric namespace on top of a variable > granularity block store. A nice topic for much research... 8-). Isn't that what Andrew Tannenbaum had on Amoeba? Does anyone have any experience with that system? The numbers in his namespace were capabilities/crypto-cookies, if I remember rightly. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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