Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:50:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: FAT filesystem performance Message-ID: <199602050950.KAA04667@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602050730.IAA20098@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 5, 96 08:30:26 am
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > That is also true for any regular file. > > I was talking about regular files. Sorry, it was too late in the night / too early in the morning... I meant that there's no big difference between read/write and mmap, except that you need one extra copy operation for read/write. The caching should be about the same. > A high performance FAT filesystem is certainly useful, but it might > require a lot of work. Yes, but we hardly need it. (Both, stability and performance improvement.) If the caching situation can cause errors, perhaps write an dosfsck(8) as well. -- 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. ;-)
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