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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>
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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