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Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
- Cojen 6y agoI found this to be a good read, but I wish the author discussed the pros/cons of bypassing the file system and using a block device with direct I/O. I've found that with Optane drives the performance is high enough that the extra load from the file system (in terms of CPU) is significant. If the author was using a file system (which I assume is the case) which was it?