On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
> could cache it, but then you will need (at an estimate of 128 bytes
> per inode) probably about 32 MB of RAM (at 1/100th of the real space
> needed), which doesn't seem to bad, but which could be used more
> productively.
the last 1TB machine I saw came with > 5GB of RAM. 32MB sounds
reasonable.
all kidding aside, I'd have to agree that the I/O issue sounds rather
negative.
R.
