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From: travis@evtech.com (Travis Hassloch x231)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Filesystem references
Date: 6 Mar 1996 21:37:11 GMT
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I found the "Op. Sys. Concepts" book by Silbershatz pretty good if I remember,
although it's not all about File Systems, and it doesn't go to terribly
into detail.  Sorry, my memory is fuzzy on that one.

The Leffler BSD book was okay for details about the BSD fs.

As for improvements, pick your flavor; there is as unlikely to be an
"ideal" file system as it is to have an "ideal" data structure
(oops, that was a little redundant :).  Tradeoffs everywhere.

Many people are experimenting with log file systems for increased write
performance.  c.f. sprite lfs
There is significant tuning to be done on block/frag sizes; I forget exactly
which paper I read on this.

Then there's a ton of distributed fs's, the Silbershatz book covers some..

I'm sure there are tons of others... and plenty of benchmarks out there.
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