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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS FS?
In-Reply-To: <199612222335.SAA00833@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "Dec 22, 96 06:35:58 pm"
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:41:33 +0200 (SAT)
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Charles Henrich wrote:

> I know some work was going on for VFAT, has this progressed enough to be usable
> for standard FAT filesystems?  Im writing to a Jaz disk under dos and its just
> dismal performance (200K/sec).  This is 2.2-ALPHA ..

After too little time to do much with the vfatfs, I've just recently
gone on leave, and will be looking at putting together a release
in the next few weeks.  I haven't run any benchmarks but the design
is more similar to the Mach dosfs than the msdosfs, so I expect
the performance will be reasonable.

--
Robert Nordier