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- From: bob@beamlab.ps.uci.edu (bob prohaska)
- Subject: /mac on a 2nd disk seems to speed things up
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- Organization: university of california, irvine
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 21:26:49 GMT
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- Moving the /mac directory to a second disk
- distinct from the root filesystem
- seems to speed up finder operations.
-
- If somebody can confirm that the effect is real
- (I havent done any careful timings, it just looks
- faster) it would be interesting to know, first of all,
- WHY it makes a difference, and second, if there is some
- way to make the machine autoboot.
-
- At present, autolaunching aux causes a hang, apparently
- because the /mac partition isn't available to put up the
- startup screen. Using launch -v from sash brings aux up
- with only minor complaint (another puzzle).
-
- The system is a ci with 8 megs of memeory, a quantum 240 on /
- and part of a quantum 210 on /mac.
-
- Any thoughts?
-
- thanks for reading
-
- bob prohaska
-