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- From: Stefan Sommerfeld <zerocom@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AFS speed
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:49:50 +0100
- Organization: TU Berlin
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- Bill Beogelein wrote:
- >
- > I tried the demo release of the AFS file-system. Everything works
- > as advertised except one thing...
- >
- > Some of the programs I use will often read/write a series of records.
- > Several 1000s records, about 200 bytes a pieces.
- > They are read/written 1-by-1 sequentially in small 200 byte pieces.
- > (Not the most efficient way to do it, but that is what SnoopDos and
- > DosTrace are reporting.)
- >
- > In one such case, the old Amiga FFS takes about 15 seconds to do what
- > the AFS takes about 70 seconds to do.
- >
- > I most likely have something configured wrong some place within AFS,
- > but where?
- >
- > Or is FFS much faster (4x) than AFS in this type of situation?
-
- This is a bug in AFS. The current betaversion V16.10 writes files
- in this situation very quick. Same things happen with ASM-One too.
-
- Bye ...
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