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    SubjectRe: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman)
    Larry McVoy writes:
    > : What I was getting at
    > : was that if you pack the data together, then read-ahead will yield
    > : more complete files, which translates to less transactions in the end.
    >
    > Read ahead really doesn't solve the problem for two reasons:
    >
    > 1) the allocation policies in almost all file systems is file
    > centric - it's careful to get *a* file contiguous but isn't
    > careful to get multiple files in the same directory all next
    > to each other

    1) is solved in reiserfs.

    >
    > 2) even if (1) was solved, the file system needs to know that it
    > bring in more data. If the file it is reading is 1K long,
    > why should it brin in the next 5MB of data?

    I don't understand. How does this differ from any other sort of
    read-ahead?

    Hans

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