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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Disk partition sizes on big disks.
Message-ID: <985@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 06:48:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 06:48:40 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Nov-83 04:21:22 EST
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You didn't mention which Unix version you are running.  I know that on
4.1Bsd the restor program spent upwards of 50% of its time just clearing
out (and copying?) buffers.  Write, or steal, a buffer clear/copy
routine in assembler, and you'll probably see much better improvement. 
Our full saves are up to 26 tapes now!  (We've got a 6250bpi tape drive
on order, and will soon switch to 4.2, which should help too.)

=Spencer