Re: Windows NT File Systems and Linux File Systems

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:36:15 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:06:34 -0600, "Jeff Merkey"
<jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:

> Bless your heart, you missed the point. Most of the stuff in NT is
> geared towards parallelism, not disk vs. cache access.

You were making points about how a particular disk/cache architecture
was good for parallelism. Linux shares many of the same architectural
distinctions, and in 2.3, we are getting _very_ good parallelism out of
the file and IO subsystems. Thanks, Ingo!

--Stephen

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