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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:45:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <408E8012.1080400@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4089F3DD.3000200@candelatech.com>



Ben Greear wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
> 
>>> Wouldn't this pretty much guarantee worst-case latency scenario for 
>>> reading, since
>>> on average at least one of your 32 disks is going to require a full 
>>> rotation
>>> (and probably a seek) to find it's bit?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Only for the first bit of a block.  For large streams of reads, the 
>> fifos will keep things going, except for occasionally as drives drift 
>> in their relative rotation positions which can cause some delays.
> 
> 
> So how is that better than using a striping raid that stripes at the
> block level or multi-block level?
> 


It's only better for large streaming writes.  The FIFOs I'm talking 
about above would certainly be smaller than typical RAID0 stripes.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-27 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23 17:26 File system compression, not at the block layer Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 17:30 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-04-23 17:41   ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-04-23 17:57     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-23 18:14     ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 18:34       ` Paul Jackson
2004-04-23 20:14         ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-23 20:34           ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-23 20:44             ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-23 20:59               ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-23 21:14                 ` Ben Greear
2004-04-23 21:25                   ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-24  4:58                     ` Ben Greear
2004-04-27 15:45                       ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-04-23 21:18                 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-24  1:28                   ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-24  2:24                   ` Tom Vier
2004-04-24  7:36                     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-24 16:02                       ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-25  3:05                       ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-25  7:29                         ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-25 19:50                           ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-27 15:43                     ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-28  0:29                       ` Tom Vier
2004-04-23 21:31             ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-23 22:20               ` Ian Stirling
2004-04-23 23:34             ` Paul Jackson
2004-04-27 15:42               ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-27 16:02                 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-24  1:18             ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-26 10:22             ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-23 21:15           ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 21:36             ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-27 20:34     ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-28 22:57       ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-29  9:46         ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-29  9:52           ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-29 10:09             ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-29 10:19               ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-29 17:17             ` Tim Connors
2004-04-28  1:00 ` David Lang
2004-04-28 10:09   ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-28 10:21     ` Nikita Danilov

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