Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Masover wrote: > > Hans Reiser wrote: > > [...] > > | My solution is to tell Nate Diller that there is extensive literature on > > | it, that it isn't really the big problem it is made out to be, and leave > > | it to him to go read the literature and code it up after he finishes the > > | required tasks of our current darpa contract.;-)
> > Can you point me to any such literature? I'm just curious. > Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-) Right. Smart people are found elsewhere only. > Databases, > garbage collectors, etc. Everthing stuff that works on the assumption that what they are working on fits in RAM (or can overflow into swap space in a pinch), and that RAM is fast (and even so they are infuriatingly slow). And disks are usually a few thousand times larger than RAM (more stuff to shuffle around) and a million times slower... > Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them, > sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this. Furious handwaving doesn't make it true. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
