Writing contigiously to UFS2?

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Fri Sep 21 09:21:50 PDT 2007


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:

> I recommend trying msdos fs.  On recent -CURRENT, it should perform fairly 
> well (akin to UFS2 I think), and if I recall correctly, has a more contiguous 
> block layout.

It can give perfect contiguity for data blocks, but has serious slowness for
non-sequential access to large files, and anyway "large" for msdosfs is
only 4GB.

Bruce


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