Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!uvaarpa!virginia!babbage!mac3n From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: OS features Summary: file blocks Message-ID: <134@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 20:27:32 GMT References: <561@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> <3228@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: na Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 5 In article <3228@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: > > o Contiguous file allocation on large devices. The additional overhead > > of discontiguous file allocation is unwarranted on modern hardware. See the article by P. Koch on DTSS File systems in the latest Trans. on Comp. Sys.