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Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity |
Date: |
04 May 2002 14:09:39 -0700 |
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nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
> I guess I should have asked for the ratio B/A. If that's small, as you
> claim, there should be a significant gain. _If_ it turned out that A
> and B were of the same size, then the gain would be quite small,
> decreasing the number of required syncs at most by a smallish factor
> like 2 or 5.
Um, cutting the number of syncs in half would have a *huge* impact. I
think you underestimate the cost of a disk seek.
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity,
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04