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- From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Preferences - UNIX setup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.161106.7949@ens.fr>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:11:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.213926.7386@pencom.com>
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- In article <1992Jul27.213926.7386@pencom.com> alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- writes:
- > + Large File System -- don't know anything about this one. Anyone care to
- > comment?
-
- If you use a large file system, then it is better to have some cache mechanism
- to hold directory information in memory, or otherwise you risk to spend a lot
- of time reading from disk when you change directory.
-
- On the other hand, caching is not nice if you make frequent changes to the
- files via unix commands that do not interact directly with Workspace Manager.
-
- I imagine the LArge File System option lets you choose between caching or
- not... (at least, it seems to work this way for me
-
- --
- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>
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