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

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