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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:07:48 -0300
From: "Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com>
To: fitzboy <fitzboy@iparadigms.com>
Subject: Re: tuning for large files in xfs
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On 5/22/06, fitzboy <fitzboy@iparadigms.com> wrote:
> Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> >
> > Why use a flesystem with just one file?? Why not use the device node
> > of the partition directly?
>
> I am not sure what you mean, could you elaborate?
>

If you have, say, a partition of size 2GB (lets call it sdc3), you can
use the device node /dev/sdc3 as if it was a 2GB file. Just configure
your program to use /dev/sdc3 instead of whatever you name your file
that is alone in this xfs filesystem. You could try that and see how
fast it goes.
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