From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 11:19:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA08027 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:19:00 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA08013 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:18:57 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00971; Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:20:15 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508221820.AA00971@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:20:15 MDT Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508220527.PAA24762@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 22, 95 03:27:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> very slow (even if the DOS file is contiguous, msdosfs doesn't support > >> clustering so it would do i/o's in too-small sizes). > > >DOS file system's speed is something we cannot do much about, remember the > >goal of an UMSDOS clone... It is not to have it as a primary FS, just > > I meant that the msdsofs implementation doesn't support clustering. This > is because it was implemented before clustering existed and hasn't been > maintained very well. It can probably be speeded up by another large > factor using better caching. And another by write-through caching the entire FAT (it's not that big). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.