Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:06:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <199508211806.UAA18390@keltia.frmug.fr.net> In-Reply-To: <199508211747.DAA03262@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 22, 95 03:47:25 am
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It seems that Bruce Evans said:
> UMSDOS is apparently a mixed blessing. It is much slower than ext2fs, and
> people tend to keep using it and wonder why Linux is so slow.
That's a newbie problem, not a technical one :-)
> We could do demos using a big file mapped by the vn driver to a virtual
> disk containing slices and partitions, but the file systems would be
> very slow (even if the DOS file is contiguous, msdosfs doesn't support
> clustering so it would do i/o's in too-small sizes).
DOS file system's speed is something we cannot do much about, remember the
goal of an UMSDOS clone... It is not to have it as a primary FS, just
showing Linuxers they're not the only one with it :-)
I'm sure it would appeal to many people. If they stay with it after the
"trial" period, noone can do much about it except keep on saying they
shouldn't... Education and knowledge is the primary problem with newbies,
whether they run Linux or FreeBSD.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
FreeBSD keltia 2.2-CURRENT #15: Sun Aug 13 17:24:47 MET DST 1995
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