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  • Committer: Robert Collins
  • Date: 2007-07-02 07:11:25 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2583.
  • Revision ID: robertc@robertcollins.net-20070702071125-cfv9utb636hn3kg3
Clearer description of locality of reference tuning.

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- We should stat files in the same directory without reading or statting
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files in other directories.
 
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  files in other directories. That is we should do all the statting we
 
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  intend to do within a given directory without doing any other IO, to
 
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  minimise pressure on the drive heads to seek.
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- We should read files in the same directory without reading or writing
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files in other directories - and note this is separate to statting (file
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data is usually physically disjoint to metadata).
 
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  files in other directories - and note this is separate to statting (file
 
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  data is usually physically disjoint to metadata).
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Scaling observations