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Line 33: == Disadvantages == * The design rationale for log-structured file systems assumes that most reads will be optimized away by ever-enlarging memory caches. This assumption is not true for all workloads: on magnetic media (where seeks are relatively expensive) the log structure may actually make reads much slower, since it [[fragmentation (computer)#External_fragmentation\|fragments]] files that conventional file systems normally keep contiguous with in-place writes. == References ==

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