Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:57:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509120557.HAA28214@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509120414.VAA03659@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 11, 95 09:14:29 pm
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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
(Me:)
> >... (For sequential reads, and i consider them the most
> >typical _unix_ usage [tar floppy], we get 30 KB/s, that's 2/3 of the
> >raw data rate, and basically proves that we don't use revolutions.)
lose
> The reason most people "think" our floppy I/O is slow is that they
> are doing msdosfs things with them. Msdosfs is a real dog in FreeBSD.
^^^
Perhaps we should rename it to "msdogfs"? :-]
Yup. mtools act much better.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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