Messages in this thread | | | From | root <> | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:29:19 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | Re: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stall |
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Actually, it is the consideration of this problem 5 years ago that lead to reiserfs.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > > On 30-Mar-99 Larry McVoy wrote: > > Figure out exactly how long it takes to read a bunch of little files > > all in their own blocks and contrast that with how long it would take > > to read all those blocks in one large I/O. > > Surely this is just a packing and disk layout problem. If you have large > inodes (say, 1 block each), and store the initial portion of the file in the > inode, and lay out inodes to be near their directory entries, you get much the > same effect. > > Ext2 can't quite do this because inodes are in fixed locations, but reiserfs > should certainly be able to do this. > > It doesn't look like it needs another layer of aggregation at the fs level. > > J > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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