Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NetBSD used to have a LFS; has that gone anywhere? Or been > essentially dropped?
My reading over the last few years has indicated that LFSs tend to suffer bad performance degradation as data and metadata for a given file get scattered all over the disk. This tends to cancel out the performance gain from being able to cluster writes in a single area. For a heavily write-intensive workload, it might be a win, but no one seems to have demonstrated an advantage for "normal", mostly read-heavy usage. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly