Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261497AbUDWVgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261498AbUDWVgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:36:14 -0400 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:54668 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261497AbUDWVgK (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:36:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:36:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Timothy Miller cc: Paul Jackson , , , Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer In-Reply-To: <4089875F.1010207@techsource.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1618 Lines: 44 On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > > > >>>SO... in addition to the brilliance of AS, is there anything else that > >>>can be done (using compression or something else) which could aid in > >>>reducing seek time? > >> > >>Buy more disks and only use a small portion of each for all but the > >>most infrequently accessed data. > > > > > > faster drives. The biggest disks at this point are far slower that the > > fastest... the average read service time on a maxtor atlas 15k is like > > 5.7ms on 250GB western digital sata, 14.1ms, so that more than twice as > > many reads can be executed on the fastest disks you can buy now... of > > course then you pay for it in cost, heat, density, and controller costs. > > everthing is a tradeoff though. > > > I had this idea of packing a bunch of those really tiny Toshiba > quarter-sized drives and some sort of RAID0 controller into a box the > size of a 3.5" hard drive. they're deathly slow... I'll send you an hdparm from an 4GB ibm microdrive the next time I have it mounted... > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/