Re: Database Usage of Unix FFS

pete_at_tecc.co.uk (Pete Bentley) writes:

>>>>>> In article <CLMt3D.35o_at_world.std.com>, lparsons_at_world.std.com (Lee E Parsons) writes:
 

>For what you are doing, putting a few big files on a big disk, it is
>tempting to suggest that a more traditional, SVR3-type filesystem
>might be more efficient...allocate a really small number of inodes,
>put all the files as few directories as possible and the SVR3 layout
>policy means you can get all the files contiguous if you create them
>on another f/s and tar or cpio them to their destination. Comments?

For what Lee is doing, would he be better off using raw or block devices, completely bypassing the filesystem? I should think that eliminating a level of processing would enhance performance. With 15 slices/partitions on a 1GB disk, he could get 75MB slices, on average.

Again, comments?

Fester Received on Wed Feb 23 1994 - 15:57:49 CET