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SubjectRe: File system compression, not at the block layer
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:

[...]

> If you want to have fast disks, then you should do what I
> suggested to Digital 20 years ago when they had ST-506
> interfaces and SCSI was available only from third-parties.
> It was called "striping" (I'm serious!). Not the so-called
> RAID crap that took the original idea and destroyed it.
> If you have 32-bits, you design an interface board for 32
> disks. The interface board strips each bit to the data that
> each disk gets. That makes the whole array 32 times faster
> than a single drive and, of course, 32 times larger.

But seeks are just as slow as before... and weigh in more as sectors are
shorter (for the same visible sector size, 1/32th). I'm not so sure this is
a win overall.
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