Re: Allocation strategy - dynamic zone for small files

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On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:37 +0100, Ihar `Philips` Filipau wrote:
> Instead the SpadFS tries to solve only half of the problem: case of
> small files (symlinks fall into that cathegory too). Small files are
> allocated in special zone and thus treated specifically. That way,
> small file accesses can be optimized both performance wise and space
> wise.

Does anyone have any estimates of how much space is wasted by these
files without making them a special case?  It seems to me that most
people have huge disks and don't really care about losing a few KB here
and there (especially if it makes more common cases slower).  Any ideas?

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

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