[OpenAFS] fine-grained incrementals?

[Matt Benjamin]

Jeff,

Marcus has suggested that the MVS backend storage is a giant memory 
mapped file.  The data structure inside that file probably looked a lot 
like UFS.

Matt

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> There is no fileserver backend which stores data in a large file or 
> directly to a block device, and there never has been.  Such a thing 
> would be possible, but it's not clear that it would be superior to the 
> existing backends.
>
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
>   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
>   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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