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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.040721.6306@unixland.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 90 04:07:21 GMT
References: <1990Nov9.220931.2091@everex.uucp> <1990Nov11.013732.1263@unixland.uucp> <2258@jwt.UUCP>
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In article <2258@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>I just built a BSD directory format file system on a floppy (with
>/etc/ffs/mkfs /dev/rdsk/f0t 2400) and it seems to work.  I only
>played with it for a few minutes, but I was able to edit files with
>long names, make directories, and list files.  I wonder if anything
>would break by using BSD directory format on the hard drive?

This is interesting.  I, too, would be interested in knowing
what the results would be of using the BSD directory format ...

bill

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