Messages in this thread | | | From | shapj@us ... | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:30:59 -0400 | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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>I think one source of argument here is that (for examples) OLTP, news >spooling, and software development are almost, but not quite, totally >unlike one another in the ways they use storage, so different folks have >different priorities. It's fairly easy to see how EROS is a win for OLTP, >but this may not be so clear for other activities.
Quite right about differences in usage leading to differences in priorities.
As I explained in an earlier round somewhere, the EROS storage allocator works very hard to allocate things in an extent-oriented fashion. In practice this works quite well.
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph. D. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Email: shapj@us.ibm.com Phone: +1 914 784 7085 (Tieline: 863) Fax: +1 914 784 7595
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