Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:37:21 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, rnordier@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FAT filesystem performance Message-ID: <199602050837.JAA20312@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199602050734.SAA02716@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 5, 96 06:34:23 pm
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> 128K is quite small now, but it still isn't necessary to lock it into > memory. Caching it in a normal LRU way should work reasonably well. > Perhaps FAT buffers should have a higher priority than other buffers > for msdosfs, but they probably shouldn't have higher priority than > buffers for other file systems. agreed. That's why I thought not to develop a special purpose caching policy and try to rely on what is already available. Especally in FreeBSD, where the FS & VM caches are merged, and the system should be quite flexible. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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