Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!mmdf From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Disk performance under Minix Message-ID: <21846@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 20:26:24 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 15 In article <21693@louie.udel.edu> HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer) writes: > A file's inode would get modified quite often....and put_block() > might be called . . . ast points out in the Book (pages 272-3 of my edition) that some performance improvement might be made by scattering the inodes around the disk. Since both the super-block and the inodes are at the very start of the disk, the problem of writing every time would seem to be magnified by having to seek so far. (Just thinking out loud...if we write critical blocks often, but only for safety, so we don't need them if we don't crash, could they be written somewhere else........) John Nall