System V file systems

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Sun Nov 6 07:19:14 AEST 1988


 >> How hard is it for an instantiation of UNIX to support multiple
 >> kinds of blocksizes? ...,

 >the difficulty that i see is in the maintenance of the
 >buffer cache.  do you have separate buffer caches for
 >each size or somehow share them.

Share them.  See 4.[23]BSD.



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