Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Slow SCSI
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.215716.7626@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <18292@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <35985@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <38912@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 21:57:16 GMT

In article <38912@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
>    2.	The Fast File System was tuned for ``typical'' UNIX work loads.

Only if you think a "typical" Unix workload is a single-user machine with
its own disks.  All the benchmarks were run single-user.
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