Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:14:29 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509120414.VAA03659@aslan.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 1995 05:54:35 %2B0200." <199509120354.FAA27598@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>As Peter May wrote: > >> That should speed the performance of this already flaky driver up no >> end! :-) > >Badly designed: yes. But flakey? How? Why? > >We've got one of the fastest floppy disk drivers. :-) It's even about >10 % faster than Linux (for sequential reads), i've heard that old >Xenix' are as fast, and it's way faster than all commercial Unices >i've seen. (For sequential reads, and i consider them the most >typical _unix_ usage [tar floppy], we get 30 KB/s, that's 2/3 of the >raw data rate, and basically proves that we don't use revolutions.) The reason most people "think" our floppy I/O is slow is that they are doing msdosfs things with them. Msdosfs is a real dog in FreeBSD. >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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