Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 21 November 2005 12:48:44 -0800, jdow wrote:
>
> that was seldom if ever used by real people. I am not sure how I would
> apply a checksum to each block of a file and still maintain reasonable
> access speeds. It would be entertaining to see what the ZFS file system
> does in this regard so that it doesn't slow down to essentially single
> block per transaction disk reads or huge RAM buffer areas such as had
> to be used with OFS.

Design should be just as ZFS alledgedly does it.  Store the checksum
near the indirect block pointers.  Seeks for checksums basically don't
exist, as you need to seek for the indirect block pointers anyway.
Only drawback is the effective growth of the area for the
pointers+checksum blocks, which has a small impact on your caches.

Jörn

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