From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 1 09:04:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA16176 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda (ip57-max1-fitch.zipnet.net [199.232.245.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16159 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA10264; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:04:01 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199606011604.MAA10264@hda> Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:04:00 -0400 (EDT) Cc: dufault@hda.zipnet.net, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606011243.WAA17058@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 1, 96 10:43:46 pm Reply-to: hdalog@zipnet.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It already permits agressive async behaviour, because update has > nothing to do with writing to disk. It just requires the update > marks (if any) to be converted to actual timestamps. I know - I meant "more aggressive" by not converting update marks to time stamps if you don't care. Maybe that is overkill, I thought the original application called for something like this. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267