From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 21 22:32:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA03975 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:32:37 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA03964 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:32:20 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA24762; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:27:28 +1000 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:27:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508220527.PAA24762@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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 I meant that the msdsofs implementation doesn't support clustering. This is because it was implemented before clustering existed and hasn't been maintained very well. It can probably be speeded up by another large factor using better caching. Bruce