Re: Disable read/write caching to disk?

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:11:14 -0400
<<On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:03:39 -0600, Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org> said:

> is just as much work as porting GFS, if not more, since UFS/FFS is 
> closely tied to the buffer cache and block layers on BSD, and divorcing
> probably would be quite difficult.

For multiple writers, probably so.  For the single-writer case, I
don't think so, since the readers can mount a snapshot while the
writer mounts the read-write view.

All this would be a lot easier if we had a storage manager more like
ZFS's.

-GAWollman
Received on Fri May 27 2005 - 16:11:19 UTC

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