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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dos Question
Keywords: Amigados
Message-ID: <4777@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 16 Dec 89 20:47:57 GMT
References: <1336@becker.UUCP> <9032@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <9032@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS) writes:
> [don't want to rewrite deirectory block on every write]  For this
> reason, filing systems normally only update such information on close
> of the file or on certain flush situations.

The other thing is to change the get file info call to use the real data
instead of going to disk for it. Makes sense, anyway... if it's in memory
for the open file anyway why bother rereading it?

UNIX effectively does this.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U`  "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"