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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BSD Fast File System a Flop?
Message-ID: <6427@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 17:34:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 17:34:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 08:50:29 EDT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <2273@sphinx.uchicago.edu> shore@hawking.psc.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>Actually, it probably is signficant that Cray has replaced the standard
>System V filesystem with a faster, bit-mapped filesystem.

With the adoption of the filesystem switch, this is relatively easy to
do, and multiple filesystem implementations can be supported, which
can be of great value when a system suddenly acquires a new filesystem
format, especially if users have removable data packs.