elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (12/22/89)
In article <504@shodha.dec.com>, alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes: > In article <7862@bunny.GTE.COM>, krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) writes: >> I was at a DECUS seminar where someone asked how disk fragmentation >> effected performance on Unix systems. The answer was that the file >> system works best if things are NOT contiguous. (This started a series >> of jokes about disk fragmenters ;) Unfortunately that's all I know. >> Does anyone know what this guy meant? > > First you should refer to the article "A Fast File System for UNIX*" > by Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler and > Robert S. Fabry. A copy is in the System Manager volume of the > ULTRIX+ Supplementary Documents. > >... Well , this I guess kind of makes clear why I consider 'comp.unix.ultrix' as being a 'Support Center' Thanks Alan anyway, Marc Elsen