From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 1 18:10:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25500 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25431; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id CAA13638; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 02:09:15 GMT Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:09:15 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: softupdates and delayed binding of physical block addresses Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks like some of the recent patches have been to take care of FreeBSD optimizations that weren't in 4.4BSD. Delayed binding of physical block addresses to logical block addresses is a good thing and if we can incorporate softupdates and minimize the reduction of these delayed bindings we are going to have a *very* fast file system. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message