On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:43:40PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:15:24PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > The hard answer is - it depends on your app. If you're just interested
> > in benchmarks - run some - Hans Reiser has a bunch that he regularly
> > publishes. Also, refer to the Berkeley FFS papers if you'd like stats.
> > John Ousterhout also published a paper containing the same data. But
> > they're all generic UNIX and not linux specific.
>
> http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/papers/realloc.ps.gz
Or still better:
http://www.best.com/~bos/os-faq/FAQ-2.html#Modern-Unix-file-and-block-sizes
-Arun
PS: Those of you asking questions about UNIX text books, should read this
faq.
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