Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:35:32 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman) |
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On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:05:00AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > Unless you have a very high compression ratio, why is there so much > benefit of reading in 10 MBytes of a compressed FS rather than just > reading in 10 MBytes of buffers on ext2fs? > > Note that I'm thinking about reading-ahead the inodes *and* the > blocks. If you have RAM to burn, then this looks like it should > work. I'm not thinking in terms of reading ahead a few piddling > blocks. I'm talking megabytes or dozens of megabytes. > > So with two seek operations, you can read-ahead lots of files and lots > of data. >
The 10 Mbytes for your files are likely scattered over the disk. with Larry's tarball, they are probably together.
A file system with good performance on lots of small files is being written by Reiser. Check http://devlinux.com/namesys
-- arvind
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