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- From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
- Subject: Re: Extended File System
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.071504.6108@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:15:04 GMT
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- rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) writes:
- : In article <711857605.F00039@remote.halcyon.com> Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
- : [deleted...]
- : >support for the extended FS. You just need to locate the special mkfs
- : >program and I think a special mount.
- :
- : And while we're at it, does anybody know if the efs is slower/faster than
- : the Minix fs, and/or slower/faster than OS/2's HPFS or somebody's (BSD's?)
- : FFS?
-
- The efs is just the minix file system hacked for larger block numbers
- and larger inode numbers. So speed rateing go
-
- minxi fs is approx same speed as efs.
- FFS is significantly faster.
-
- Don't know where HPFS stands.
-
- : >Rob L.
- : > * Origin: Via the Annex in Victoria, TX (1:3802/217)
- :
- : Keith
- : (rohrer@fncrd0.fnal.gov)
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