.\" $NetBSD: 0.t,v 1.3 2003/08/07 10:30:44 agc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)0.t 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/16/91 .\" .rm CM .nr PO 1.25i .ds CH " .ds CF "% .nr Fn 0 1 .ds b3 4.3\s-1BSD\s+1 .de KI .ds Lb "Fig. \\n+(Fn .KF .ce 1 Figure \\n(Fn - \\$1. .. .de SM \\s-1\\$1\\s+1\\$2 .. .de NM \&\fI\\$1\fP\\$2 .. .de RN \&\fI\\$1\fP\^(\^)\\$2 .. .de PN \&\fB\\$1\fP\\$2 .. .TL A Pageable Memory Based Filesystem .AU Marshall Kirk McKusick .AU Michael J. Karels .AU Keith Bostic .AI Computer Systems Research Group Computer Science Division Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 .sp email: mckusick@cs.Berkeley.EDU telephone: 415-642-4948 .AB This paper describes the motivations for memory-based filesystems. It compares techniques used to implement them and describes the drawbacks of using dedicated memory to support such filesystems. To avoid the drawbacks of using dedicated memory, it discusses building a simple memory-based filesystem in pageable memory. It details the performance characteristics of this filesystem and concludes with areas for future work. .AE .LP |