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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:31:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > I have modified FFS filesystem code to put the disk inode at the beginning
> > of a file, i.e, the logical block #0 of each file begins with 128 bytes of
> > its disk inode and the rest of it are file data. 
> 
> first question I have is, why?

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. 

-Zhihui



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