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> Bart wrote: |
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> Hrm... I've been wondering how much of a hard drive relief |
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> it would be to put the metadata of the top x most accessed |
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> files or just up to y MB in of it ramdisk. Considering hard |
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> drive flutter is a major bummer to performance these days, |
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> doing a flutter for common filesystem *meta*data seems |
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> rather silly - and a /lot/ of programs stat() way like crazy. |
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This has already been approached. See (http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/conquest) for |
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details. Basically the mete-data and small files are stored in battery |
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backed RAM. They showed huge performance increases. |
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-Tad |
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