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- Date: Mon, 9 May 94 02:14 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: UniFS
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- Here's a weird idea. How about combining ramfs with Unifs? That way the
- Unified file system could store files like a real filesystem?
-
- Or perhaps add a command to MiNT.CNF that would allow writes to U: to be
- redirected to some other path? So that it would show up in U:\ but get stored
- elsewhere?
-
- If the DIRSEP #define is changed to an OR conditional, like :
- #define DIRSEP(p) (((p) == '\\') || ((p) == '/'))
-
- then, what else would be required to use a Unix path separator in system
- calls?
-
- Would cach'ing fs->lookup provide much of a speed advantage? Some people
- were talking about putting a "cookie cache" into MiNT and it wouldn't be
- very hard (assuming that you don't have to release a cookie back to the
- filesystem immediately, and you can let the cache keep it for awhile without
- hurting something) then it should be pretty straightforward. Say, an array
- of 32 cookies to cache? I've already worked out a way to do it and I'll
- hack it in this weekend and see if it makes much of a difference, but I
- don't think there will be much improvement.
-
- Oh .. I think TOSWIN has a really BAD memory leak. For some reason, when I
- do a PS or a TOP, MiNT increasing has more and more memory, until it gets
- over 2 MB and I have to reboot. I first thought it was tfork, but I used
- that directly from a shell quite a bit and there was no problem, but under
- TOSWIN memory use skyrockets! It seems to be a combination of tfork and
- toswin though as tfork'd processes grow huge when running and only the original
- memory is free'd and returned to the system, the rest is "owned" by pid 00.
-
- Anyone working on unblocking Pfork() or Pvfork() ??
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