The Problem: Poor Performance
Understand the causes of poor file system performance in early UNIX systems, focusing on data fragmentation, inefficient block sizes, and disk seek overheads. Learn why organizing on-disk data with disk-aware strategies is crucial for improving throughput and reducing delays when accessing files.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
The problem with the file system mentioned in the last lesson was that performance was terrible. As measured by ...