larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (08/26/90)
>In article <1053@p4tustin.UUCP> carl@p4tustin.UUCP (Carl W. Bergerson) writes: >>Performance: >> >> "Smaller filesystems are faster" - Xenix Installation Guide >> >> This is generally true for all versions of *ix. >Can you explain why? Becuase I cannot see why it should be like that. >The only reason I can think of is reduced head-movement, but if you >divide one disk into to parts, that effectively defeats that, by >having to move the head back and forth between the parts. Remember how much slower the Xenix filesystem is as compared with the FFS being shipped with 386/ix and SCO Unix? Maybe for some reason under Xenix small file systems are faster, but with the free list in memory and the fast file system (at least with 386/ix) I doubt if the size of the filesystems actually make much of a difference. Personally, I have a 150 meg streamer, so I like to keep the filesystems around 150 megs (all except the root which I keep at 16 megs).. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry -or- larry@nstar Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 lines/PEP/HST/Hayes-V)