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From: craig@BBN.COM (Craig Partridge)
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Subject: Extremely Fast File Systems
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Date: 26 Jul 90 15:50:15 GMT
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I'm curious.  Has anyone done research on building extremely
fast file systems, capable of delivering 1 gigabit or more of data
per second from disk into main memory?  I've heard rumors, but no
concrete citations.

I'm interested because I think we'll need such fast file systems as
we build distributed systems over gigabit networks, and I'm somewhat
curious to learn what, if anything, has been done so far in this area.

Craig Partridge
craig@bbn.com

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% There is the RAID project at Berkeley, and some disk array work going on at
% IBM Almaden.  There is also Michael Scott's work at Rochester. --DL
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