On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dan Pritts wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
structure. Please don't suggest changing this if you don't understand how
it affects the streaming vs. seeking performance of operations. The fact
that AFS stores data in a serialized format in managable chunks is a
*HUGE* win.
I never suggested changing it. I merely stated that it was a big
difference between AFS & NFS, and for some situations, it could be
considered a disadvantage.
I still don't see the situations where its a big disadvantage. The format
of an AFS volume file is just as opaque to me as an umounted filesystem
block device. If its get to the point where I'm digging through /dev/sda1
trying to fix something on the filesystem I'm much better off wiping the
system, reinstalling and recovering from backups if I need to. Same goes
for AFS. I can't think of any use cases of ripping apart the on-disk
format of a volume that aren't better addressed through some other tactic
that is less of a waste of my time.
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