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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <1990Nov01.115148.14436@nstar.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 90 11:51:48 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:

>just that the code is cleaner and spends a little less time fiddling with
>special cases that turn out not to matter.  I suspect that cylinder groups
>(present in ufs but not FFS) don't help much; they may actually be the
>hindrance that makes the performance difference.

The Intel release 4 manuals go to great details to explain the gap/cylinder
paramters and their "sample setting" whening making filesystems - but their
examples are basically for 3b2 drives (all the way up to a big 72 meg drive).

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