Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:14:45 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "Graeme Tait" <U@webcom.com>, "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Peter Kok" <peter@sweda.com.hk> Subject: Re: fragmentation Message-ID: <199809242114.OAA08456@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:14:54 EDT." <199809241915.PAA18472@laker.net>
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--==_Exmh_1679186798P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Steve Friedrich" wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:52:51 -0700, Graeme Tait wrote: > >I thought that apart from the issue of a large "minimum allocation unit" > >in MS-DOS, there was the problem of individual files getting spread over > >non-contiguous (and often widely separated) regions of disk. How does BSD > >manage this? > > Rather than attempt to explain it myself, let me inform you of the > existence of a document written by Bill Joy when he created the > Berkeley Fast File System. You should be able to find a copy of this > doc. I say someone mention it the other day I think, not more than a > week ago. I used to have a copy, but it mat be impossible to find, > buried in the thousand books I own... Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry. "A Fast File System for UNIX", Technical Report CSD-83-147, July 1983. Go to http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/NCSTRL/ and search for any of the authors. There's scanned-in versions of this technical report there (OCR-ed, TIFF, and GIF). > If anyone knows of a source for some of the early documentation that > came out of Bell Labs, in terms of papers and such, I'd sure like to > see it make it's way to a CD!! These are not *early* documentation, but there are a number of UNIX papers in the "Unix Research System Papers, Tenth Edition, Volume II". ISBN 0-03-047529-5. "Unix Research System Programmer's Manual, Tenth Edition, Volume I", ISBN 0-03-047532-5, was a set of manpages for V10 UNIX. There was actually a VAX running V10 UNIX at Bell Labs, Murry Hill, up until about August 1994... Bruce. --==_Exmh_1679186798P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNgq2RKjOOi0j7CY9AQFCRQP+OpjiFJR1rokYJKyBM0b4Yq5GclzF/50K LUHfI/xsz1kl13zirkTPE5H3vgfesrsTKAW6ZIA2Z7TX8DMVIA3ZpwgKkfqPaBaN v8XTF/n6li7C+BtzMoUrpj3p1jaO5DPAwtkdo/dybI9HAQUMYj/aF8ZUsIYVsVwA l4XE+ccIJTE= =RNIY -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_1679186798P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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