Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:40:12 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 20TB Storage System Message-ID: <10306.1062769212@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:23:06 EDT." <16216.36410.889440.499438@canoe.velocet.net>
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In message <16216.36410.889440.499438@canoe.velocet.net>, David Gilbert writes: >That reminds me... has anyone thought of designing the system to have >more than 8 frags per block? Increasingly, for large file >performance, we're pushing up the block size dramatically. This is >with the assumption that large disks will contain large files. > >It strikes me that driving the block size up (as far as 1M) and having >a 256 (or so) fragments might become appropriate. Sounds like a _great_ project for somebody :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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