Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:27:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <199508220527.PAA24762@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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
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