Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> NetBSD used to have a LFS; has that gone anywhere? Or been
> essentially dropped?
My reading over the last few years has indicated that LFSs tend to
suffer bad performance degradation as data and metadata for a given
file get scattered all over the disk. This tends to cancel out the
performance gain from being able to cluster writes in a single area.
For a heavily write-intensive workload, it might be a win, but no one
seems to have demonstrated an advantage for "normal", mostly
read-heavy usage.
-Doug
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