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From: shor@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD Fast File System a Flop?
Message-ID: <2273@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 13:14:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 13:14:56 1987
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Reply-To: shore@hawking.psc.edu (Melinda Shore)
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In article <670@pyrnj.uucp> romain@pyrnj.UUCP (Romain Kang) writes:
>It is probably not significant that supercomputer implementations of
>Unix (Cray, ETA) appear to use the System V filesystem, since they
>would typically run CPU-bound rather than I/O-bound jobs, on top of
>having superior I/O subsystems and oceans of memory.

Actually, it probably is signficant that Cray has replaced the standard
System V filesystem with a faster, bit-mapped filesystem.  They found
that the original just couldn't keep up.  As for ETA, we won't know
until they come out with a product, will we?
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Melinda Shore                                   ..!hao!oddjob!sphinx!shor
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center                     shore@morgul.psc.edu