> Though there is a potential loss of disk IO efficiency when alignments of > the data portion are not on the 4096/8192 disk chunk borders. The few dozen > bytes of overhead difference in the disk and memory nodes are annoying.
A possibility is to detach the data from the data structures needed to
access them, in much the same ways filesystems do.
But this is better tested out first in a specialized environment (e.g.
in a mem-based cache_dir implementation).
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/kinkie
