Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:56:07 +0200
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Maxim Shchetynin <maxim@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
       Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AZFS file system proposal
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On Wed, 18 June 2008 13:15:14 +0200, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
> 
> Our users want to have a file system with bigger block sizes (64KB, 16MB, ...).

Good reason.

> They also don't want to keep metadata on DDR2 media, but to be able to use a complete DDR2 for their applications data.

This I find surprising.  Isn't DDR2 actually the slower type of memory?
So you spend fast memory to store metadata in order to save slow memory?

Jörn

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