Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 1998 10:31:58 -0700 | From | Peter Monta <> | Subject | Re: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ? |
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Gerhard Mack writes:
> This brings to mind a question I asked myself last time I saw a thread > along this line. Why doesn't someone make a fs just for cases that need > large files? It seems to me there is quite a few people who need it for > various reasons. This would imho solve the speed loss argument since the > people who need the larger files would be the only ones using it.
Yes, I'd find this useful too. Ideally the granularity would be configurable up to at least 4 MB, so that a certain I/O bandwidth could be guaranteed even with a worst-case seek after every block transferred. Buffer cache optional would be great also.
Cheers, Peter Monta pmonta@imedia.com Imedia Corp.
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