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From: pmf@mimsy.UUCP (Paul M. Franceus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BuffMemType in 1020 Mountlist
Message-ID: <17768@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 23:54:54 GMT
References: <16280@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: pmf@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Paul M. Franceus)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <16280@louie.udel.EDU> "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>quick AddBuffers question:  for devices which are mounted (e.g. FFS Hard Disk
>partitions) is using AddBuffers equivalent to specifying buffers in the mountlist
>for each device?  If so, I probably ought to just take the AddBuffers commands out
>of my startup files...
> 
>Montgomery N. Kosma
> 


Well, I think it's even worse than that.  Adding more buffers in the
mountlist can use buffers in FAST memory (depending on the BufMemType) 
while AddBuffers uses CHIP ram ONLY.

Paul Franceus
StarLight Technologies