[OpenAFS] fine-grained incrementals?

Kevin Coffman kwc@citi.umich.edu
Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:08 -0500


If anyone is still running that code, I'd like to hear about it!

> 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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