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From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <294@audfax.audiofax.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 23:35:31 GMT
References: <267@srchtec.UUCP> <1990Oct19.130404.25352@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct31.120401.4814@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct31.212543.28245@ico.isc.com> <1990Nov01.114726.14348@nstar.uucp>
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>  The BSD-style file system is a far better performer.

In article <1990Nov01.114726.14348@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>Yes - but 8K blocks - just think what that would do to your partition
>with all the news articles --

The BSD file system has both blocks and fragments.  On an 8K file system
the fragment size will be 1K; files that are less than that in size only
take up a single 1K fragment.  This is even more efficient than the 2K
file system which uses 2K blocks.  So, go right ahead and put your news
partition on BSD file system'ed partition.

I have to testify as to the speed of the BSD filesystem.  When we switched
to it with ESIX rev D our systems sped up very noticeably!
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