Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:23:12 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda Cc: dufault@hda.zipnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606011623.CAA23320@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> It already permits agressive async behaviour, because update has >> nothing to do with writing to disk. It just requires the update >> marks (if any) to be converted to actual timestamps. >I know - I meant "more aggressive" by not converting update marks >to time stamps if you don't care. Maybe that is overkill, I thought >the original application called for something like this. You would still have to keep the update marks somewhere :-). They should compress very well since they are only 1 bit to begin with and have a steady state value of 1 :-). Bruce
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