Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-25 Thread Nikolai Joukov
Every stackable file system caches the data at its own level and copies it from/to the lower file system's cached pages when necessary. ... this effectively reduces the system's cache memory size by two or more times. It should not be that bad with a decent cache replacement policy; I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-22 Thread Nikolai Joukov
3. A known ideal solution for this problem is sharing of the cached pages between file systems. We attempted to do it for Tracefs but the resulting code is not beautiful and is potentially racy: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevelm=113193082115222w=2 Unfortunately,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-16 Thread Nikolai Joukov
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-16 Thread Nikolai Joukov
a lot! Nikolai. - Nikolai Joukov, Ph.D. Filesystems and Storage Laboratory Stony Brook University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
Nikolai Joukov wrote: Nikolai Joukov wrote: We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems. Great! We have performed some benchmarking on a 3GHz PC with 2GB of RAM and U320 SCSI disks. Compared to the Linux

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
Nikolai Joukov wrote: We started the project in April 2004. Right now I am using it as my /home/kolya file system at home. We believe that at this stage RAIF is mature enough for others to try it out. The code is available at: ftp://ftp.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/raif

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:47, Nikolai Joukov wrote: We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems Do you have a function similar to an an EMC cloneset? Basicily a cloneset tracks what has changed in both the source

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-14 Thread Nikolai Joukov
Nikolai Joukov wrote: We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems. Great! We have performed some benchmarking on a 3GHz PC with 2GB of RAM and U320 SCSI disks. Compared to the Linux RAID driver, RAIF has overheads

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-14 Thread Nikolai Joukov
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-14 Thread Nikolai Joukov
/pub/raif/ Nikolai. - Nikolai Joukov, Ph.D. Filesystems and Storage Laboratory Stony Brook University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo