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Posted Nov 30, 2011 19:19 UTC (Wed) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: bigalloc by tialaramex
Parent article: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

It also seems that you might not want to use a filesystem at all for that type of application, but instead just mmap a block device directly.


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bigalloc

Posted Jun 14, 2012 14:19 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link]

like varnish does :)

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