Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:21:44 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Message-ID: <20011126102144.A68993@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <34669.1006787273@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:07:53PM %2B0200 References: <200111241845.fAOIjM377587@apollo.backplane.com> <34669.1006787273@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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>Do you agree with me that we'd benefit the largest number of >installations by targetting applications with MTA-like access on small >files? Given the radial density of modern disk drives, the amount of time needed to read an additional 8KB in a random access scenario is quite trivial - usually less than .25ms, making the total percentage increase in access time small enough to not be a significant concern. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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