Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!ncar!ico!vail!rcd 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> Organization: Interactive Systems Corp, Boulder, CO Lines: 15 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.:-) -- +---------+ Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com ico!rcd (303)449-2870 | In this | 4th annual MadHatterDay [10/6/89]: | style | A Thousand Points of Madness |__10/6___|