Subject: Re: Bad side effect of "newdirpref"
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 08/21/2006 14:59:26
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:57:22PM -0400, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> Given the simplistic "block rotor" used for block allocation, reducing
> the number of CGs can *only* make the problem worse.
I don't think that's necessarily the case: consider the extreme case
where there's only one CG. Clearly, the problem is not worse. For a
disk of the same size, less CGs means less likelihood that any given
CG is full; obviously, there's a balance against the longer seek to the
next CG that a larger CG yields, but I don't think the result is as
blindingly obvious as you do.
The other possibility, of course, is that I'm mistaken or stupid; it
would hardly be the first time.
Thor Lancelot Simon email@example.com
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