Re: OSDI paper - IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:51:58 +0000 (GMT)
> There's one thing I do not understand: you have different packet sizes
> to each hosts (potentialy), you can send partial packets somethimes,
> etc. Checksums of what are you going to cache? Are you going to split
> file into 256b chunks, compute checksums of that and if someone
> requests 1025 bytes packet, take 4 checksums, combine them and add
> single byte?
It only works if you do that kind of thing, but for that matter the same
is precisely true of IO-lite
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