From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 8 7:59: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id BEAE414C10; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:59:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu Cc: rjesup@wgate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Zhihui Zhang on Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:32:30 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file Message-Id: <19991208155905.BEAE414C10@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:59:05 -0800 (PST) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The big benefits to locality of meta & file data are to allow > > drive/driver caching to do sequential (or close to) reads in as large > > blocks as possible. There was a recent SigOS paper on a modified Unix > > filesystem that was designed to take advantage of modern disk systems, > > Do you still remember the title of that paper and tell me where can I find > it (preferebly online)? > > -Zhihui Author: Gregory R. Ganger Author: M. Frans Kaashoek Title: Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files Pages: 1-17 Publisher: USENIX Proceedings: 1997 Annual Technical Conference Date: January 6-10, 1997 Location: Anaheim, CA Institution: MIT available to usenix members in the online lirary at https://www.usenix.org//publications/publications.html. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message