From: Jim Starkey
Date: December 15 2008 3:42pm
Subject: Falcon and ZFS
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If Falcon were to allocate blocks of pages (say, 64K's worth) per data 
segmentmd per index and maybe section tree, we would get greater 
locality on very large page size file systems like ZFS, and probably not 
hurt us at all other systems.  It wouldn't have any affect on 99% of 
Falcon, and would probably be easy to prototype.

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Jim Starkey
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