Re: Overhead of Using a Stackable File System(Wrapfs)

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On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 01:32 -0800, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I want to enquire about the percent overhead involved
> when we use Wrapfs(null layer stacking file system)
> over ext3.

It should only be a few percent (if I remember correctly, less than 5),
but it would depend on your machine and workload.  If you want an exact
answer, just run some benchmarks on ext3 and wrapfs/ext3.

> I want to enquire this because I want to use Wrapfs in
> a network environment and there will be an additional
> overhead of network communication.

If you're still talking about implementing NFS using stackable file
systems, please note that we decided that was not a good idea.

Good luck.

Avishay Traeger
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~avishay/

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