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From: rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tuning information for ISC 386/ix
Summary: more about the free list and interchanging disks
Message-ID: <16142@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 89 15:48:52 GMT
References: <38451@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <14663@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1989Sep27.053259.6557@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
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johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes about the 386/ix
Fast File System, among other things that:

> A nice thing about this scheme is that the format of an unmounted disk
> remains exactly the same as AT&T's SysV/386, so you can carry file systems
> back and forth.

In fact, you can take a disk from an AT&T system to a 386/ix system and
mount it, then unmount it to clean up the free list into more usable
order!  (Of course, it would make more sense just to run 386/ix.:-)
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