From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 10:41:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24107 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA24082; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:41:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03479; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:40:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd003388; Mon Dec 15 11:40:34 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19909; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:40:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712151840.LAA19909@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: blocksize on devfs entries (and related) To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:40:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, bgingery@gtcs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199712150922.EAA04315@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Dec 15, 97 04:22:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.