Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!xylogics!cloud9!bu-cs!madd From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Tuning information for ISC 386/ix Message-ID: <38839@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 20:44:15 GMT References: <38451@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <14663@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14711@haddock.ima.isc.com> Reply-To: madd@cs.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Followup-To: comp.unix.i386 Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group Lines: 13 In article <14711@haddock.ima.isc.com> trb@haddock.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum) writes: |Frankly I don't have any complaints with the speed of the 386/ix file |system, I'm kind of curious about the 386/ix "FFS". What I'd like to know is if the free list management has been improved to help minimize fragmentation (eg allocation by cylinder cluster). This is pretty trivial to do -- even without changes to the on-disk filesystem. Comments from the crowd at ISC? jim frost software tool & die madd@std.com