Why does it take so long to mount & dismount...

[John Macdonald]

In article <1990Oct11.123645.18099 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
|In article <22524 at grebyn.com> ckp at grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
|>
|>...large volumes? I have a 486 PC, running Interactive Unix 2.2, I have
|>an Adaptec 1542 SCSI host adapter, a 170 Meg Quantum HD with my root and
|>/usr file systems, and I just added an old Priam 320 Meg HD I received.
|>I left 20 Meg for DOS, and made the rest into two 150-meg partitions.
|
|This is due to the Interactive's Fast File System (FFS).  The FFS reads in
|the entire free list at mount time (and writes it out at unmount time).  So
|your mounts/unmounts take more time when you don't have much data on a file
|system (it's free list is longer).

In other words, the problem will go away very quickly... :-)
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