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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:40:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, bgingery@gtcs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: blocksize on devfs entries (and related)
Message-ID:  <199712151840.LAA19909@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712150922.EAA04315@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Dec 15, 97 04:22:14 am

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> > This is one of the reasons the Linux FATFS implementation kicks the
> > FreeBSD's implementation's butt on performance metrics.
>
> I could be wrong, but I suspect the reason that our FATFS is slow now
> is that don't use our cluster code.  It isn't that slow anymore, after
> all of the unneeded sync writes were fixed.

It's still slower than it has to be; this is kind of a tangent at
this point, however.

A more interesting tangent in the same vein is how you would support
multiple name spaces in VFAT through the existing namei() (you wouldn't,
basically).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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