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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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