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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:40:21 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) wrote:
] A log structured file system organizes _files_ as a log, and is in
] general a bad idea except on single tasking machines, or single user
] machines where there is in general only one task writing to the disk.
What?
What?
Sorry, I can't believe I read that...
Two words: Write Clustering.
Three more words: Delayed Ordered Writes.
These are *both* more than adequate soloutions to the write
concurrency issues you allude to.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.