From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 4 10:52:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22480 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22459 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA06305 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:52:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA01665 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:52:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id TAA01613 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:22:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602041822.TAA01613@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FAT filesystem performance To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:22:13 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199602041410.PAA18920@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 4, 96 03:10:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am wondering: how hard would it be to add mmap() to, say, wd.c ? > Would it have other useful applications ? This would only shift the problem from the msdosfs code into the various device drivers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)