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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
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Subject: Re: Dumb Question: Why 512 byte block?
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:31:19
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: wjin@cs.uh.edu's message of 19 Dec 1992 20:04:32 GMT
In article <1gvv8gINN80e@menudo.uh.edu> wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:
>BTW, could anyone clarify whether 386BSD uses the Fast Unix File System
>which is described in "A Fast File System For Unix" by McKusick, Joy, Leffler,
>and Fabry (1984 ACM Tran. on Computer System) ?
yes, it does. this is the stuff you see in /sys/ufs (but excluding
/sys/ufs/mfs* -- the _old_ mfs (memory filesystem) stuff)...
random fun: the mfs in 386bsd cares about disk layout... <chuckle>
cgd
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark