Re: RFC: implementation of package pools

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> Why are you suddenly using a different email address for me?
> 

I'm not. Using netscape for mail, it must've done it. :?

> Of course, and in fact that has already been done.
> 

Oh sorry. Where is that?

> > programming? You really have no trust in CS grad. students ;)
> 
> Of course not, I'm one myself and I see the peopel around me.
> 

Okay, agreed :)

> > Writing a distributed fs isn't that different for a single machine,
> > since when you run it on a single machine it should give decent
> > performance.
> 
> Performance is really a minor thing in a fs design..
> 

Is it? Performance is an issue when you consider
  * less disk space wasted
  * scalability (to larger & parallel disk setups)
  * caching, file i/o overhead for io intensive apps

Of course there are other major design goals such as reliability
and security.

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
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