Yet another filesystem - sffs

[Bernard Hatt]

I had an idea for a filesystem as an alternative to using a raw disk
partition for storing a single (large) data file (eg. a DVD image or a
database data file), adding the convenience of a file length, permissions
and a uid/gid.

As I now have some functional code (a 'compile outside the kernel'
module, only tested against i386/2.6.9) I thought I'd share the sffs
(single file file-system) code for comments/testing.

Performance for a single file is between 0 and 40% faster than ext2,
(though sffs is not a general purpose filesystem).

Some more details/benchmarks:
        http://www.arkady.demon.co.uk/sffs
the code can be downloaded from:
        http://www.arkady.demon.co.uk/sffs/sffs-latest.tar.gz (13.5k)

Regards,

Bernard




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