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Re: No local regular files

To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: No local regular files
From: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:34:18 +1100
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, Shailendra Tripathi <stripathi@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:10:48PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:06:27AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> 
> > I can think of several tricky problems that need to be solved before
> > this could work.
> 
> I'm not aware of any practical benchmark where there is a performance
> gain by doing this (fir reiser3 anyhow) and since disks are insanely
> large and cheap I just don't see the point given the added complexity.

Agreed. I'm just pointing out that it's not something trivial....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
R&D Software Enginner
SGI Australian Software Group


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