Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: Why does it take so long to mount & dismount...
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.131151.29413@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <22524@grebyn.com> <1990Oct11.123645.18099@virtech.uucp>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:11:51 GMT

In article <1990Oct11.123645.18099@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
|In article <22524@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
|>
|>...large volumes? I have a 486 PC, running Interactive Unix 2.2, I have
|>an Adaptec 1542 SCSI host adapter, a 170 Meg Quantum HD with my root and
|>/usr file systems, and I just added an old Priam 320 Meg HD I received.
|>I left 20 Meg for DOS, and made the rest into two 150-meg partitions.
|
|This is due to the Interactive's Fast File System (FFS).  The FFS reads in
|the entire free list at mount time (and writes it out at unmount time).  So
|your mounts/unmounts take more time when you don't have much data on a file
|system (it's free list is longer).

In other words, the problem will go away very quickly... :-)
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