Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra HD
Message-ID: <5607@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 16:40:07 GMT
References: <35@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU: <1306@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1306@agora.UUCP> billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
>the SupraMount command. The memory being used that you are complaining
>about is real simple to get rid of... Use the old file system. The buffers
>are quite a bit larger with FFS, and that's what eats the memory. It's
>supposedly a feature of FFS, *Not* SupraMount.

Not true.  The size of buffers is the same under the fast file system
as the old file system.  The number of buffers can be set
(via MountList) for both the FFS and OFS.  The only difference is
that under the fast file system, adding buffers actually does some
good.
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andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
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