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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!attitude.queernet.org From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 06:59:12 GMT Organization: QueerNet Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3339c8f3.97766345@queernet.org> 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> <33347CC9.380E@cet.co.jp> Reply-To: rogerk@queernet.org NNTP-Posting-Host: queernet.queernet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37736 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6459 On Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:43:53 +0900, Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote: >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. Yes, of course I meant "cleaner"; sorry. None of the information suggested that a general-purpose file system with "cleanerd" running would perform acceptably, as I recall. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE rogerk@QueerNet.ORG 2215-R Market Street #576 San Francisco, CA 94114 +1 415 ALL-ARFF "There is only one real blasphemy -- the refusal of joy!" -- Paul Rudnick