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- From: shc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (S.H. Couturie)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.arch.storage,comp.unix.internals
- Subject: Re: Extent-based Filesystems (was: Large Application data sets )
- Message-ID: <5444@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 23:03:42 GMT
- References: <33120@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Jul21.113652.4898@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <1992Jul25.064903.21099@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Jul25.064903.21099@e2big.mko.dec.com> pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >In article <1992Jul21.113652.4898@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
- >
- >|>In <33120@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- >|> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- >|>
- >|>> "extent-based" means that instead of storing lists of blocks, you
- >|>>store lists of block ranges (extents). For example, if you have a contiguous
- >|>>file 10MB long, it's stored as starting block and number of contiguous
- >|>>blocks (or starting and ending). As you can see, this is great for storing
- >|>>(and seeking) in fairly unfragged files. It doesn't get worse than lists
- >|>>of blocks unless it's average number of contiguous blocks is less than 2.
- >
- >|>Who implements extent-based filesystems commercially? How
- >|>does it compare with the alternatives?
- >
- >Is this a trick question?
- >
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-
- Check out SGI's IRIX with "EFS" - Extent File System - which certainly is
- an extent based filesystem. As of IRIX 4.0, also includes a defragger
- (fsr).
-
- Seems to work pretty well; check out the Unix Reviews I/O benchmarks:
- SGIs tend to be pretty quick at disk I/O.
-
- Steve
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