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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: Updates and things ...
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 13:53:12 MET
- In-Reply-To: <9312170301.AA21349@nyx10.cs.du.edu>; from "Stephen Henson" at Dec 16, 93 08:01:49 pm
-
- Hi,
-
- > Ah, one more thing, I can make the cache mode easily work on a
- > 'per filesystem' basis, however I don't think it wise to make floppies
- > permanently not use turbo mode; the performance loss is considerable.
-
- I wouldn't use it on floppies at all :-)
-
- It's just that you then could make partition which are unlikely to be
- written to very often just run in read-cache mode, and thus obtain yet
- more security. It's not that I doubt the quality of your minixfs, it's
- just I doubt the fitness of some other software (notably mine :-), which
- somethimes crashes the system.
-
- Other topics: I agree.
-
- TeSche
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- PS: If the above written looks weird, then that's probably because it _IS_.
- Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...), University of Bielefeld, Germany
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