Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!jetson!john From: john@jetson.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: IBM speed Message-ID: <70@jetson.UUCP> Date: 12 Jul 88 14:25:28 GMT Organization: SMART HOUSE Limited Partnership Lines: 16 In a previous article, Mark Williamswrites: > Unix might be a bit faster if each user had his/her own one-cylinder > filesystem. Yes, especially without links or tree-structured directories. If you want to organize your files under VM, you get several minidisks (each an exact cylinder multiple) and put related files together.... I'll take the UNIX filesystem over that kind of speed any time. (I've worked under VM, so I know what it's like.) -- John Owens SMART HOUSE Limited Partnership john@jetson.UUCP (old uucp) uunet!jetson!john +1 301 249 6000 (internet) john%jetson.uucp@uunet.uu.net