On 29 Mar 2000, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Maybe I am mixing up oranges and logs, but for me, in certain cases,
> a log-based filesystem can be way faster than a normal or
> metadata-log filesystem: as data is only appended, you can do
> the append sequentially and in very big chunks (say, 4 MBytes
> sequential I/Os). You will get very good performance from
> single device and hardware (or even software) RAID0. And
> you don't need to think about seek times when writing.
Speed increases up to 10x were touted as one of the reasons to switch your
VMS system's storage from Files-11B to Spiralog.
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