[haiku] Re: GSoC 2009
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:11:54 +0100 CET
Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> BFS does have a big problem: it just doesn't handle lots of little
> files very well.
There are two sides to this: one is a performance problem as the inodes
are likely more scattered over the disk than with other file systems
(if only for the case that each inode consumes one block). With disks
that have good random access speed (like SSDs), this is not an issue.
The other problem is that besides attributes, the smallest unit for BFS
is a block, and each inode will cover one as its file stream, so it
needs more space than needed, and that one continues to be an issue
with SSDs.
Bye,
Axel.
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