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Date:      Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:44:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@over.ru>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C-FFS anyone?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000226094041.2981A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000226162255.A23927@over.ru>

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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Alex Povolotsky wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've just read (well, partially) a whitepaper named "Embedded Inodes and
> Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files" (don't have
> URL at hand).
> 
> Ideas presented there are QUIT interesting. Did anyone tried to implement
> them in BSD?
> 

I read the paper a while ago. Over the years people have been trying to
improve disk bandwidth using locality.  But I do not see if there is any
big room left to continue in this direction. Plus, everything has
tradeoffs.

-Zhihui



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