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From: elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Electronic SPR submission (was Re: Any disk-defragmenters...)
Message-ID: <2085.25910c59@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 21 Dec 89 17:01:13 GMT
References: <2095@compugen.> <7862@bunny.GTE.COM> <504@shodha.dec.com>
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Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,ESAT - dep. Elect. Engineering, Belgium
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In article <504@shodha.dec.com>, alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
> In article <7862@bunny.GTE.COM>, krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) writes:
>> I was at a DECUS seminar where someone asked how disk fragmentation
>> effected performance on Unix systems. The answer was that the file
>> system works best if things are NOT contiguous. (This started a series
>> of jokes about disk fragmenters ;) Unfortunately that's all I know.
>> Does anyone know what this guy meant?
> 
> 	First you should refer to the article "A Fast File System for UNIX*"
> 	by Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler and 
> 	Robert S. Fabry.  A copy is in the System Manager volume of the
> 	ULTRIX+ Supplementary Documents.
> 
>...


   Well , this I guess kind of makes clear why I consider
'comp.unix.ultrix' as being a 'Support Center'

    Thanks Alan anyway,

                                  Marc Elsen