Initial filesystem design synopsis.

Max Okumoto okumoto at ucsd.edu
Sat Feb 24 13:31:37 PST 2007


Matthew Dillon wrote:
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    I am still refining the filesystem spec.  The greatest weakness in it
    right now is where to store large indexes (primarily for directories).
					-Matt
What would the relationship between system memory size and segment size 
be?  From your description, it sounds like you accumulate transactions 
until a segment is "full", and then push the segment to disk.  So a 
machine with limited memory resources would be forced to push segment 
more often.

       Max





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