Caching and Buffering
This lesson discusses different mechanisms to speed up reads and writes in the vsfs.
As the examples in the previous lessons show, reading and writing files can be expensive, incurring many I/Os to the (slow) disk. To remedy this issue, which will be a huge performance problem, most file systems aggressively use system memory (DRAM) to cache important blocks.
Speeding up
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