Comments on: Lessfs-1.4.5 has been released http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=617 Open source data de-duplication & data tiering for less Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.7 By: maru http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=617&cpage=1#comment-1593 Mon, 30 May 2011 19:51:57 +0000 http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=617#comment-1593 Hi John,

I am afraid that this is not going to help much for performance with a 4k block size.
A 4k block size generates way to much meta data and to make it worse it make compression less effective as well.

]]> By: John http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=617&cpage=1#comment-1590 Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10:14 +0000 http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=617#comment-1590 “Now the data is sorted so that less seeks are required when the data is accessed.”

I wonder how much this would help performance when using 4K blocks?

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