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From: danq@sag4.BERKELEY.EDU (Daniel Quinlan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: BSD Fast File System a Flop?
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 18:46:25 EDT
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I recently purchased _UNIX Papers for UNIX Developers and Power
Users_, a collection of articles on facets of UNIX edited by Mitchell
Waite, which had a number of interesting articles in it.  On the whole,
it seemed to be worth the ~$25 I paid.  However, the last article, by
Eric Raymond, contained the following assertion in a section titled
"Berkeley Redux: The Long, Slow Fall of BSD UNIX":

	                                             " ..  The Fast File 
    System, a 4.2BSD enhancement intended to speed up system throughput, 
    has turned out to be considerably slower at supporting a typical multiuser
    job mix than the code it replaced; it is now widely considered a technical 
    failure. .."

This was not my impression.  Would anyone care to comment on this?

Daniel Quinlan
Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley