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Date:      Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:23:12 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda
Cc:        dufault@hda.zipnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
Message-ID:  <199606011623.CAA23320@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> 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.

You would still have to keep the update marks somewhere :-).  They
should compress very well since they are only 1 bit to begin with
and have a steady state value of 1 :-).

Bruce



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