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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Lindsay Roberts <lindsay.roberts.os@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:40:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725184005.GD8225@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734b7880707172016v530ce775p108910f7baf9de8e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

> >> >   block aligned regular file data to bring 
> >performance
> >> >   parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read
> >> >   speed of the existing romfs.
> >
> >Doesn't that make these filesystems much bigger? By, on 
> >average, .5k
> >per file? Or, if I'm understanding things correctly, 
> >~1k?
> 
> Yes, my experience has been that it has been almost 
> chillingly close
> to .5k per regular file increase in partition size. I 
> know in
> applications in which size is utterly critical this may 
> be slightly
> unattractive, but in cases where romfs is chosen for its 
> byte
> reproducibility and read-only nature the 
> size/performance tradeoff is
> fairly advantageous.

If the fs is read-only.. can we do some tail packing and get _both_
speed and space efficiency?
							Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13  6:01 [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2 Lindsay Roberts
2007-07-17  8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 19:21   ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-18  3:16     ` Lindsay Roberts
2007-07-18 17:02       ` Tim Bird
2007-07-25  7:28         ` [Celinux-dev] " Greg Ungerer
2007-07-25 18:40       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-08-06  7:43         ` Lindsay Roberts
2007-08-06 17:20           ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-30 18:12 ` Phillip Susi
2007-07-30 18:29   ` Rene Herman
2007-08-06 19:41 ` Sergey Vlasov

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