Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:40:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, bgingery@gtcs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blocksize on devfs entries (and related) Message-ID: <199712151840.LAA19909@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199712150922.EAA04315@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Dec 15, 97 04:22:14 am
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> > This is one of the reasons the Linux FATFS implementation kicks the > > FreeBSD's implementation's butt on performance metrics. > > I could be wrong, but I suspect the reason that our FATFS is slow now > is that don't use our cluster code. It isn't that slow anymore, after > all of the unneeded sync writes were fixed. It's still slower than it has to be; this is kind of a tangent at this point, however. A more interesting tangent in the same vein is how you would support multiple name spaces in VFAT through the existing namei() (you wouldn't, basically). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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