Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"

Posted by Hemos on from the long-live-the-disk dept.

andfarm writes "A few days ago, I sat in at a presentation of a what seems to be a new file system concept: Conquest. Apparently they've developed a FS that stores all the metadata and a lot of the small files in battery-backed RAM. (No, not flash-RAM. That'd be stupid.) According to benchmarks, it's almost as fast as ramfs. Impressive." The page linked above is actually more of a summary page - there's some good .ps research reports in there.

2 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MCSE, eh? by RedAlgaron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you're just jealous because you haven't gotten past your senior finals at highschool

  2. Re:I'm the one who gave the talk by andfarm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hah! I was the one who stuck around after the talk to berate MP3 for silly metadata setup. Hope you don't mind the hordes of visitors too much.

    --

    TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.