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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:36:15 -0400 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen), Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem > years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by > converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a 33mhz > Power chipset could read in 5 512-byte blocks and decompress it to > the original 4K faster than the disk could read in 8 512-byte > blocks. > Given that today there's an even *bigger* disparity in CPU speed > versus disk speed, I'd be surprised if it doesn't help today too. The problem is that disk seek times have not gotten much faster over the years, while disk throughput rates have skyrocketed. Transferring a little less data is not going to help you when 80% of your disk time is spent seeking, not reading or writing. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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