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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!out2.nntp.cais.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-hk.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.att.net.hk!spinnews!tokio!news.dti.ad.jp!news-jp-0.abone.ne t!np1.iij.ad.jp!nf0.iij.ad.jp!nr0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:43:53 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33347CC9.380E@cet.co.jp> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net> <5grhf8$7d6$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gs1oc$kb2@flea.best.net> <3331e42e.58953417@nntp.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a08m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37661 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6449 Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > The reason LFS is not in the mainstream yet is that Margo's work > indicated that, once you add a flusher, LFS performs dog-slow compared Did you mean cleaner? The problem was that different sites need, potentially very different, scheduling policies. It would probably be sufficient to just run cleanerd at night for a lot of sites. > to geometric file systems like VxFS, UFS, and XFS. Logs are useful as > caches or in conjunction with special-purpose block I/O schemes > (NetApp's WAFL), but essentially a dead issue as a data file system > with any write load.