Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:46:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hdalog@zipnet.net Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606021746.KAA23531@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606021415.KAA11494@hda> from "Peter Dufault" at Jun 2, 96 10:15:46 am
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> > Please quit addressing this as if it were anything other than a > > kernel space issue. > > Should I follow up with commentary on indentation styles and big > company lack of risk taking instead? What can be done portably > in the kernel (and if it can be done portably) is governed by the > user space issues. It's *possible* to implement a POSIX system completely in user space on any Von Neumann machine. Yes, there are *some* semantics that specify "must be committed to stable storage", but these semantics are irrelevant to a discussion of why FreeBSD does so many writes on metadata and Linux doesn't, for the same metadata. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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