Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Ben Greear]

Timothy Miller wrote:

> > Wouldn't this pretty much guarantee worst-case latency scenario for 
> > reading, since
> > on average at least one of your 32 disks is going to require a full 
> > rotation
> > (and probably a seek) to find it's bit?
>
>
>
> Only for the first bit of a block.  For large streams of reads, the 
> fifos will keep things going, except for occasionally as drives drift in 
> their relative rotation positions which can cause some delays.

So how is that better than using a striping raid that stripes at the
block level or multi-block level?

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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