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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Hard disk geometry translation (was V86 mode ...) Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 01:24:37 GMT Message-ID: <CC3592.4ps@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <CBo9C6.9ED@sugar.neosoft.com> <24gt3e$gg7@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <24rjmj$f11@umd5.umd.edu> Lines: 12 In article <24rjmj$f11@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: > Rather than abandoning knowledge of the geometry, we need a filesystem that > knows about a variable number of sectors/track. I would rather forget about the geometry and switch to a Sprite-style Log File System. For some activities it's several times as fast as the FFS, and the only place it really loses is random writes followed by sequential reads. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."