> Anyone willing to work on a ufs prototype ? I actually believe this > could be done in a ~100 lines of code in ufs ... if you put in some > restrictions onto the sizes of files that can be concatenated (if > you don't, you'll have to copy a possibly huge number of partial > block lists). > > cc:'ing ufs-discuss for good measure. This isn't ZFS-specific.
Before we go too far down the road with this, what real-world problem would it solve? There's no question that the idea is cool, and that for certain workloads (concatenating lots of files whose sizes are nicely aligned) it would rock. But does that particular use case really come up often enough to justify the added complexity? I don't mean to imply that the answer is no; I'm just asking the question because this is not something I've had customers ask for, nor have I ever had the need myself. Jeff _______________________________________________ ufs-discuss mailing list [email protected]
