From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 22 19:26:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02830 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02823 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 28873 invoked from network); 23 Mar 1998 03:32:18 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 23 Mar 1998 03:32:18 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-031798 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980322195557.03039@mcs.net> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:32:18 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Karl Denninger Subject: Re: CURRENT Kernel Status Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Mar-98 Karl Denninger wrote: .. > Maybe it is now - I was using it back in the 3.0/3.1 days (~4 years ago+) > and it wasn't rational to use it for the "gazillions of small files" case > then. Filesystems are engineering products. As such, they represent a compromise towards a design goal. News (or e-mail) far exceed the design goals for any reasonable Unix filesystem, in more than one way. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message