Is this what you ask for ? => 4.4BSD Fast File System http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/usenix95-lfs/
Le Saturday 05 February 2011 19:21:47, Ben Calvert a icrit : > out of curiosity, which FFS were they studying? > > On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just read some extracts of a paper, study from Margo Seltzer & Keith A. > > Smith from Harvard university, a comparison of LFS & FFS. > > > > It looks like the creation of files in FFS is rather long such as > > creation of many small files is somewhat not very fast compared to > > certain other FS. As well, the fragmentation is less optimized on disks > > handling lots of changes than some other FS. > > > > Basic questions from my side, is FFS-2 better than FFS in the sense of > > dealing with creation of many small files, and is fragmentation less > > than with FFS ? > > > > Are other file systems with some improvement of performance compared to > > FFS available for OpenBSD ? > > > > In other words, I'm not critisizing at all a FFS file system which I do > > use successfully for few years now, what about optimizing a server by > > mounting some disks with different types of file systems, is this > > available at all ? > > > > Yes, I read FAQ and I seem to understand that all of it is simply not > > convenient if possible at all. But the question is worth to me in the > > sense, there are probably lot of interesting things about file systems > > use in OpenBSD not yet documented. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Regard > > > > J.-F.
