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From: allyn@odin.ucsd.edu (Allyn Fratkin)
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Subject: Re: O/S's using bit maps for free disk block lists?
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Date: 30 Mar 88 19:34:12 GMT
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See:

Peacock, J. Kent, "The Counterpoint Fast File System", 
USENIX Conference Proceedings, (Winter, 1988), pp. 243-249.

for a description of an implementation of a "fast" file system
for system v.  it uses a bit map for the free list and shows throughput
approaching the berkeley fast file system.

From the virtual mind of 

Allyn Fratkin            allyn@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu    or
EMU Project              {ucbvax, decvax, ihnp4}!sdcsvax!allyn
U.C. San Diego