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From: Simon Karpen <slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: User-space file systems.
Date: 20 Feb 1997 20:37:09 -0500
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
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it's really quite easy to fix, too.
in /etc/fstab, just use the mount options:
rsize=8192,wsize=8192, and at least over 10mb ethernet,
it's as fast as anything else.

--Simon

mjr@laulujoutsen.pc.helsinki.fi (Mikko Rauhala) writes:

> On 16 Feb 1997 00:48:10 GMT, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> >If it does in fact limit buffer sizes to 1k, then that is *easily* enought
> >of a handicap to explain its poor behaviour.
> 
> Doesn't limit, but defaults. Could be better anyway.
> 
> There are patches for Linux user mode filesystems, btw.
> 
> -- 
> Mikko Rauhala, sivari - mjr@iki.fi - http://www.iki.fi/mjr/
> 

-- 
Simon Karpen
karpes@rpi.edu, slk@acm.rpi.edu, slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu
"Down, not Across"