From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Streaming on venti
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:40:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrng4g1i1.db3.wb@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605144214.GA30375@nibiru.local>
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> schrieb:
>
> Well, I'll have to think about this. My primary goal is to
> make the sequential read as fast as possible. There won't be
> any non-sequential access.
>
IMHO, using venti to serve streams is a bad idea. None of the advantages
of venti do matter in this application. Nowadays disks are so big that
GPT partitions are preferrable to provide disk storage for big streams.
Of course, some support form the OS is needed, which excludes Plan9.
--
Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-373
PGP: http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/mypublic.key
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 11:24 Enrico Weigelt
2008-06-05 12:19 ` ron minnich
2008-06-05 13:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-06-05 13:47 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-05 14:01 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-05 14:42 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-06-05 15:40 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke [this message]
2008-06-05 15:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-06 8:33 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2008-06-06 8:40 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-06 9:44 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2008-06-06 12:59 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-06 12:08 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-06 13:16 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2008-06-06 14:06 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-06 15:53 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-09 8:51 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2008-06-10 1:56 ` ron minnich
2008-06-10 2:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-07 1:23 ` ron minnich
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