[OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS + GFS = crazy?

[Sidney Cammeresi]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 at 12.14.00 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> But does GFS really overwrite in place?  I thought I remembered it
> just keeps creating new files.  So an overwrite is really just a
> create and a rename.

GFS overwrites in place, but the paper said for Google's workload,
overwriting is a very rare operation; generally their files are only
appended to, read sequentially, and read randomly.

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