Re: designing fast, streaming disk i/o with mmap: help wanted

From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 15:00:13 EST

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It occurs to me that there is an important dimension to this that I
have not mentioned.

Because of the number and potential size of the files that need to be
streamed, its not possible to mmap them in their entirety into the
address space. If we could, then most problems would go away.

--p

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