Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!pigs!haugj From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Filesystem speed on PC's (was: Re: ISDN) Summary: DOS Filesystem and Interrupt Latency Message-ID: <237@pigs.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 18:39:55 GMT References: <18.23040D6B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <6108@bigtex.uucp> Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas Lines: 14 In article <6108@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes: > , not that the Mess-DOS file system is >currently good for sustained 8K/sec anyway. the trouble with the DOS file system is not the result of the file system structure. it is the result of DOS itself. Messy-DOS is written like shit. the file system structure would be able to handle the volume if the operating system were written properly. a similiarly toy-like file system, which was implemented correctly, is the DEC RT-11 file system. it is several times faster than unix and runs on a 64K machine. -- jfh@rpp386.uucp (The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers) "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" -- Hanlon's Razor