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From: Eric Dorman edorman@Tan...
Subject: [9fans] Ghost in the linker?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:47:56 -0800 (PST)

> 
> edorman@Tan... (Eric Dorman) writes:
> | .. it's mostly pretty cheap these days, particularly compared 
> | to cheap disks that provide really too much storage 
> | for this task (plus hassle of having to maintain them).  
> 
> You could use them with cfs. 
>
Indeed;  What I'd really like to get at, however, is
having as few disks as possible (fewer moving parts
to go bad, configure, buy and generally worry about :) ), and 
those disks that do exist are in controlled environments.

Seems to me that would be useful in 'development' environments
where a broader spectrum of files are used more often, and
less useful in environments (e.g production, offices, etc )
where files (applications) are longer-lived and fewer in number.
I feel intuitively that the paging loads follow a similar
pattern, but I don't have any data to back it up :)

Looks like I need to write some activity simulations and
see what happens :)

Eric Dorman
edorman@tan...