unlink(2) - horror story

[Joseph D. Shapiro]

In article <1220 at burl.UUCP> rcj at burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>Why the kernel designers didn't put newly-freed blocks at the END of the
>freelist I'll never know.
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>
>The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291)
>alias: Curtis Jackson	...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!burl!rcj
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just a guess -- So that if you only use 1/2 your disk drive, your
data doesn't get spread all over and cause un-neccessarily long
seek times?



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