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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:54:16 -0800
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

David Masover wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
> | David Masover wrote:
> |
> |>
> |>
> |> Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process?
> |>
> |> The idea of caching is that running
> |>
> |> cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *
> |>
> |> is probably slower than
> |>
> |> cat * > baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz
> |
> |
> | Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is 
> significant.
>
> That's potentially a common problem, and "cat *" is an overly-simplified
> example.  Either you force the "plugin" to say whether it wants to be
> cached or not, or you cache everything, because there are going to be
> plugins like "tar -xjp" for which caching is a HUGE increase.

Ok, I accept the argument.