Re: 20TB Storage System

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/05/03

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    To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
    Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:40:12 +0200
    
    

    In message <16216.36410.889440.499438@canoe.velocet.net>, David Gilbert writes:

    >That reminds me... has anyone thought of designing the system to have
    >more than 8 frags per block? Increasingly, for large file
    >performance, we're pushing up the block size dramatically. This is
    >with the assumption that large disks will contain large files.
    >
    >It strikes me that driving the block size up (as far as 1M) and having
    >a 256 (or so) fragments might become appropriate.

    Sounds like a _great_ project for somebody :-)

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