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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
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- Keywords: extfs
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:48:56 GMT
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- In article <BzC542.8oF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
- >The extended filesystem as it is, has been very stable for me over the
- >last 6 months. However, there is a newer version of the extfs that will
- >reportedly use bitmaps instead of linked-lists for a large increase in speed.
-
- The speed is definitely needed. As some of you know, I had an IDE disk
- die on me recently, and I had to restore everything from tape. The fascinating
- thing is that the scsi tape was able to read data *faster* than the extfs was
- able to write it to disk. The tape even had to stop and wait for a bit (the
- red disk activity light was on continuously) because there were too many dirty
- pages that needed to be written to disk. Eventually it got caught up, but it
- did seem kind of funny at the time.
-
- I tend to use minix for the root, and extfs for the /home partition.
- I rarely have problems with extfs any more.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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