Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:43:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199509020343.UAA28544@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950902112904.25712C-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Sep 2, 95 11:29:37 am
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> > > About 20 minutes or so.. > > > > For the empty file system? :) > > Jordan did say it was for a news spool.... when was the last time > you saw a news spool disk even close to being empty? ;-) A cannonical soloution is probably to have the update mark the disk clean and flush the buffers after a certain amount of time idle, with it being unmarked on activity. This also fits with the idea of APM shutdown/restore. Not something to hack in overnight, but not a horribly big job, either. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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