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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:10:59 -0500
From:      Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: ufs is too slow?
Message-ID:  <199611131410.JAA30752@bbs.mpcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611120120.SAA19129@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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In article <199611120120.SAA19129@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert wrote:
 : Again, news articles are created, written only once, and not updated;
 : there's really no reason to get more complex on a "newsfs" than doing
 : what you can to speed up indexing, etc..  And that can be just as easily
 : laid on *top* of *any* FS -- after all, the indices won't change
 : significantly either, if they have correct organizing principles, since
 : the data they refer to is invariant until expiration or creation.

The only catch is with regard to overview files, one per newsgroup, to
which per-article header data are appended.  Whether or not it's a
large catch in the discussion about what I call an "expfs", an
expendable filesystem with a care-less (careless) attitude towards
integrity, I do not know.


-- 
Howard Goldstein   <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>



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