Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:20:15 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <9508221820.AA00971@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508220527.PAA24762@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 22, 95 03:27:28 pm
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> >> very slow (even if the DOS file is contiguous, msdosfs doesn't support > >> clustering so it would do i/o's in too-small sizes). > > >DOS file system's speed is something we cannot do much about, remember the > >goal of an UMSDOS clone... It is not to have it as a primary FS, just > > I meant that the msdsofs implementation doesn't support clustering. This > is because it was implemented before clustering existed and hasn't been > maintained very well. It can probably be speeded up by another large > factor using better caching. And another by write-through caching the entire FAT (it's not that big). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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