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From: attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: putting blocks together
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> 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.

Agreed that keeping blocks together can help even in a multi-user
environment, *if* you are running filesystem code that takes more
advantage of it than standard 4.xBSD does.  That's an important "if".

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu