Jeff Garzik wrote: > Definitely. "several leaders" aka partitioning is also becoming > increasing paired with efforts at enhancing locality of reference. Both > Google and Amazon sort their distributed tables lexographically, which > [ideally] results in similar data being stored near each other. > > A bit of an improvement over partitioning-by-hash, anyway, for some > workloads. As with B-trees on disks, and in-memory structures, application knowledge of locality is very much worth passing to the storage layer. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
