Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 06:11:36 -0700 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman) |
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On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 04:56:06PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > Hm. OK, maybe the problem is that you're thinking about typically > small files. Unfortunately I can't find your original message with the > histogram in my archives. For my /usr/bin, the median file size is > 9216 bytes, which, IIRC, is larger than the median you measured.
The interesting thing about Larry's numbers is that they are not on-disk numbers.
> - a modest read-ahead (hundreds of kBytes) of the inode blocks will > halve the number of seeks, and will make the remaining seeks > generally less expensive (no need to seek between two different > areas on the disc)
Only if the directory contents are grouped together on the disk.
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