Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:14:54 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Graeme Tait" <U@webcom.com> Cc: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Peter Kok" <peter@sweda.com.hk> Subject: Re: fragmentation Message-ID: <199809241915.PAA18472@laker.net>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:52:51 -0700, Graeme Tait wrote: ><snip> > > >I thought that apart from the issue of a large "minimum allocation unit" >in MS-DOS, there was the problem of individual files getting spread over >non-contiguous (and often widely separated) regions of disk. How does BSD >manage this? Rather than attempt to explain it myself, let me inform you of the existence of a document written by Bill Joy when he created the Berkeley Fast File System. You should be able to find a copy of this doc. I say someone mention it the other day I think, not more than a week ago. I used to have a copy, but it mat be impossible to find, buried in the thousand books I own... If anyone knows of a source for some of the early documentation that came out of Bell Labs, in terms of papers and such, I'd sure like to see it make it's way to a CD!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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