Re: slow access to files

[Diego Roversi]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:26:59AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> Data blocks don't go to storeio.  The included libstore communicates with
> storeio about the storage type and does the actual reading/writing etc
> itself (see file_get_storage_info, store_create, store_encode and
> store_decode).  ext2fs is linked to libstore, of course.

I see that storeio have a option "-e" that hide the device. I suppose that
using this option cause ext2fs to go through the storeio translator. So in
this case I can happily implement caching in storeio (even if we use more CPU).

I think that storeio is the only possibility to put a cache mechanism in
user space. But I see some drawbacks:
- memory user for caching can be paged out 
- some extra cpu cycle are needed to do I/O

I have already a small library implementing a fixed size cache, so I can
integrate it in the storeio. 

Any suggestion? 

TIA

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