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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: unlink(2) - horror story
Message-ID: <1137@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 18:05:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: bunker.1137
Posted: Thu May  1 18:05:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 18:18:07 EDT
References: <947@kitty.UUCP> <403@ukecc.UUCP> <979@kitty.UUCP> <422@ukecc.UUCP> <1220@burl.UUCP>
Reply-To: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct
Lines: 26
Keywords: ``Relink'' April Fool
Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:17898 net.sources.bugs:820
Summary: 

In article <1220@burl.UUCP> rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>Why the kernel designers didn't put newly-freed blocks at the END of the
>freelist I'll never know.
>-- 
>
>The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291)
>alias: Curtis Jackson	...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!burl!rcj
>			...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua  watmath ]!clyde!rcj

just a guess -- So that if you only use 1/2 your disk drive, your
data doesn't get spread all over and cause un-neccessarily long
seek times?



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