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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: TCP latency
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:25:48 GMT
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>> On 18 Jul 1996 12:29:26 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:
JW> Firstly, the shared libs used to be in /usr/lib, as well as
JW> the non-shared libs on BSD. Thus, they are only available
JW> with the /usr filesystem. You are probably right that
JW> stuffing them into /lib wastes somewhat less space in the root
JW> file system. (About 2 MB for me, from a rough estimation.)
JW> Second, the dynamic loader is in /usr/libexec/. ;)
That could also be in /lib.
>> Otoh unpacking tar files is much faster on Linux again.
JW> Even with -o async? Remember, BSD (conservatism warning again
JW> :) defaults to synchronous metadata updates. I know that
Yes, I always use -o async on all my filesystems.
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