home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Short: Speed up XFS with ZIP disks (Patch)
- Author: schulz_j@informatik.fh-hamburg.de (Jan Hendrik Schulz)
- Uploader: schulz_j@informatik.fh-hamburg.de (Jan Hendrik Schulz)
- Type: disk/misc
-
- Have you ever tried to use the XFS filesystem to access your
- (PC formated) ZIP Disks, and found it to be VEEERY slow!?
- I did, and recently I found the reason for this problem. I
- told the author of XFS about it - and hopefully we'll see a new
- and much faster XFS soon. Until then, XFSSpeedUp provides a
- partially workaround for the problem, increasing at least the
- reading speed.
-
- XFSSpeedUp only speeds up reading, the write accesses to the
- disk are still slow. It would be much more difficult to speed
- up write access as well.
-
- Without XFSSpeedUp, I have meassured a read/write speed of about
- 20KB/sec with XFS and a PC formated ZIP disk. (My SCSI ZIP drive
- is connected to the UW-SCSI of my CyberstormPPC.)
-
- With XFSSpeedUp I have meassured a read speed of about 300KB/sec,
- that is about 15 times as fast! (But still not as fast as possible
- with a new XFS version!)
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 2588 1632 36.9% 08-Aug-99 20:24:04 XFSSpeedUp
- 4486 1996 55.5% 08-Aug-99 20:53:58 XFSSpeedUp.doc
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 7074 3628 48.7% 08-Aug-99 22:09:00 2 files
-