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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <1990Nov01.114726.14348@nstar.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 90 11:47:26 GMT
References: <267@srchtec.UUCP> <1990Oct19.130404.25352@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct31.120401.4814@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct31.212543.28245@ico.isc.com>
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>Not too surprisingly, we've looked at that a bit.  One answer stands out
>like a sore thumb:  If you're running V.4, *don't* use the old-style s5
>file system unless you really need it.  The BSD-style file system is a far
>better performer.

Yes - but 8K blocks - just think what that would do to your partition
with all the news articles --

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