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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:21:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Writing contigiously to UFS2?
Message-ID:  <20070922021201.C43374@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <46F3B4B0.40606@freebsd.org>
References:  <46F3A64C.4090507@fluffles.net> <46F3B4B0.40606@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:

> I recommend trying msdos fs.  On recent -CURRENT, it should perform fairly 
> well (akin to UFS2 I think), and if I recall correctly, has a more contiguous 
> block layout.

It can give perfect contiguity for data blocks, but has serious slowness for
non-sequential access to large files, and anyway "large" for msdosfs is
only 4GB.

Bruce



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