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Subject: Re: ufs is too slow? 
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:07:07 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>The LFS that we have had in our tree never really worked correctly,
>and wasn't very robust.  However, it doesn't excuse me missing my target
>for getting it fixed.  I did ask Margo for help with her latest sources,
>but got no response, other than an initial ack.  Given that, I intend to
>fully integrate it with our merged VM/Buffer cache, hopefully making progress
>like getting rid of locked buffers, etc...
>
>John

Yes, please get rid of the locked buffer stuff.  That code is EVIL.

BTW,do you have any plans for removing the 64k I/O limitation?  It sorta
sucks when you want to write a 1meg segment to have to cut it up into such
small pieces.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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