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From: prisma!mo@uunet.uu.net (Mike O'Dell)
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Subject: putting blocks together
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Date: 26 Jul 89 15:27:10 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 84, message 12 of 13

Actually, it helps in timesharing if you make the changes so that bmap()
can tell you if there are some blocks together you could read in one gulp.
Our filesystem performance improvements are substantial, and they were
done without changing any disk data structures - just policies and
algorithms inside the kernel.

	-Mike