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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Optical Disk Optimization
Message-ID: <750@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 90 00:45:04 GMT
References: <9958@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <9958@pt.cs.cmu.edu> nash@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Richard Nash) writes:
>I just looked in my console window for grins and saw the message:
>"Jul 18 16:14:55 mendez mach: /Users/nash/OpticalDisk: optimization
	 changed from SPACE to TIME"
>
>This makes me think that the Optical drive can operate in two modes. Personally
>I want to always be in 'Optimized for time' mode. I rarely need all of the
>storage on a given disk, but I hate waiting for it.
>
>Is there any way to set the mode you prefer?

This is NOT a feature of the optical drive--it is a feature of
the Berkeley Fast File System.  If the system is changing things
on you, you're probably hovering very close to 90% full.

Time optimization is the default on most filesystems; see the man
page for "newfs" for more information and metainformation.

					-=EPS=-