Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:31:22 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991206142945.23212B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912061325270.20185-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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