On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 at 12.14.00 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > But does GFS really overwrite in place? I thought I remembered it > just keeps creating new files. So an overwrite is really just a > create and a rename.
GFS overwrites in place, but the paper said for Google's workload, overwriting is a very rare operation; generally their files are only appended to, read sequentially, and read randomly. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
