Modern Advantages of Cooked Disk

• Advances in file system technology have narrowed that gap significantly in I/O performance.

  • Asynchronous I/O
  • Direct I/O
  • Configurable file-system buffers
  • Veritas File-systems Quick I/O
  • extent-based file systems (xfs, jfs2, vxfs, etc.)

• File-systems provide more flexibility.

  • ‘cp’, ‘mv’, ‘cpio’, ‘tar’, ‘dump/restore’, etc.

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