Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 02:44:31 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), danj@3skel.com, bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ufs is too slow? Message-ID: <13977.847763071@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:20:50 MST." <199611120120.SAA19129@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199611120120.SAA19129@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >> > I have seen that OpenBSD is doing something with lfs, but I >> > am not sure what. It would be worth while to get lfs running >> > for sure; if you ever wondered, a lot of that disk bandwith >> > goes to filesystem overhead. >> >> Theo's words on lfs were essentially "I've never heard of it working >> outside Margo's lab", in a context which I read as "lfs is bogus". > >I believe it works; Margo knows what the hell she's doing, unlike many >people who try to pass themselves off as FS experts. There's really >comparatively very little real FS research going on in the world, and >I'd stack Margo up there with John Heidemann and the other Names in a >heartbeat. She just doesn't seem to want to answer Kirks comments... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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