Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: An FS idea - good or bad? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 18:51:54 GMT References: <1766@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> <884@sce.carleton.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <884@sce.carleton.ca> graham@sce.carleton.ca (Doug Graham) writes: > This finite queue size is really not a problem. Since each user task > can have at most one I/O request pending at a time, I would advise against designing around this assumption, if you want to support 1003.x later on. 1003.4 certainly requires multiple outstanding requests, and it's handy for networking. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`