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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 1997 07:31:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Cc:        toor@dyson.iquest.net, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: These mtv video pauses are murder
Message-ID:  <199712221231.HAA01467@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971222072206.45282@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Dec 22, 97 07:22:06 am"

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Randall Hopper said:
> John S. Dyson:
>  |You *might* want to try to do the audio with the AIO code (as long as you
>  |are not running SMP.)  Oops!!! I haven't written manpages yet.  For specs,
>  |refer to your trusty IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX.4). :-(.
> 
> Got a URL where I can yank a PDF? :-)  (Or is this one you have order and
> shell out green stuff for.)
>
Sorry :-(.  During the holidays, I hope to do alot of stuff for FreeBSD.

> 
> Speaking of file systems, I've wondered about the LFS (log file system).
> If I remember my reading correctly, the strategy of always appending to the
> file system should let us eek out a bit more performance over a UFS due to
> seek avoidance.
> 
Disadvantage of LFS, is when it gets full, performance drops rapidly.

>
> I'm not sure if LFS is still broken or not.  I'll check over the holidays
> when I'm experimenting.  But if you happen to have any info/pointers on LFS
> too, it'd be appreciated.
> 
LFS is in exceptionally bad shape.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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