linux-kernel - Re: AZFS file system proposal

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Message-ID: <20080618205607.GI10271@logfs.org>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:56:07 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Maxim Shchetynin <maxim@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AZFS file system proposal

On Wed, 18 June 2008 13:15:14 +0200, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
> 
> Our users want to have a file system with bigger block sizes (64KB, 16MB, ...).

Good reason.

> They also don't want to keep metadata on DDR2 media, but to be able to use a complete DDR2 for their applications data.

This I find surprising.  Isn't DDR2 actually the slower type of memory?
So you spend fast memory to store metadata in order to save slow memory?

Jörn

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