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SubjectRe: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stall

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
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