Re: Initial filesystem design synopsis.

[Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
[stuff deleted]
>     I am still refining the filesystem spec.  The greatest weakness in it
>     right now is where to store large indexes (primarily for directories).
>
> 					-Matt

What would the relationship between system memory size and segment size 
be?  From your description, it sounds like you accumulate transactions 
until a segment is "full", and then push the segment to disk.  So a 
machine with limited memory resources would be forced to push segment 
more often.

       Max