Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:16:32 -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.3.96.991206161503.24121D-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912061519360.20185-100000@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 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. > > I still don't get it. To get the file, you do a lookup. So the inode is in > memory. The you call the handler for the executable. But the inode is in > memory at this point .... what am I missing? > When you read the disk inode, the first part of the data of its corresponding file is brought into the memory at the same time. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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