On May 20, 2012, at 5:13 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> How often would you flush to disk? You still need to worry about the order
> of writing metadata.
>
that's the nice thing. it's so simple I don't have to worry about order. you
write new
blocks and, once all of them reached the disk withou
we don't compute on file servers
On 20 May 2012 04:13, Bakul Shah wrote:
> When you suddenly need
> lots of memory for some memory intensive computation, it may
> be too late to evacuate the memory of your FS data
>
those restrictions are not necessary
On 20 May 2012 04:13, Bakul Shah wrote:
> This last point is more or less independent of the FS (as long
> as an io buffer is page aligned and io count is a multiple of
> page size).
>
On Sat, 19 May 2012 00:45:58 +0200 Francisco J Ballesteros
wrote:
> > Just curious.
> > If the tree doesn't fit in memory, how do you decide who to
> > kick out? LRU? Sounds much like a cache fs. What does it buy
> > you over existing cache filesystems? Speaking more generally,
> > not just in
using ipad keyboard. excuse any typos.
>>
>
> Just curious.
> If the tree doesn't fit in memory, how do you decide who to
> kick out? LRU? Sounds much like a cache fs. What does it buy
> you over existing cache filesystems? Speaking more generally,
> not just in the plan9 context.
>
>
lru
On Fri, 18 May 2012 23:13:54 +0200 Nemo wrote:
> Creepy is a prototype file server for Nix. It maintains a
> mutable file tree with unix semantics, kept in main memory,
> served through 9P, see intro(5), and through IX.
Creepy? It has become a "creepy" word now!
>
Because I noticed Ken's worm fs was being discussed in this thread, I thought
I might just drop here the man page for a new alternate file server that we
wrote
for nix.
It's not yet ready for use (I'm using it, but it's still under testing, and the
version
in the main nix tree is now out of date
