From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 12 03:52:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA02655 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:52:17 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA02643 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:51:53 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA16285 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:50:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA06119 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:50:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA28214 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:57:36 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509120557.HAA28214@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:57:35 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509120414.VAA03659@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 11, 95 09:14:29 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 719 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)