File system performance

[Tim Wright]

In <1990Nov01.114726.14348 at nstar.uucp> larry at nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:

>rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>>Not too surprisingly, we've looked at that a bit.  One answer stands out
>>like a sore thumb:  If you're running V.4, *don't* use the old-style s5
>>file system unless you really need it.  The BSD-style file system is a far
>>better performer.

>Yes - but 8K blocks - just think what that would do to your partition
>with all the news articles --

Can you say 1/2K frags ? I knew you could :-) :-)
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