From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 04/14/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: New feature for the filesystems. What do you think ?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 16:19:49 GMT

In article <lsnb9uINNalq@priddy.cs.utexas.edu> danielsi@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel Aaron Supernaw-Issen) writes:
>change to the surrounding lfs code was that the head position had to be
>byte indexed rather than block indexed. no biggie.

You'll see a performance hit if you do it that way (byte indexes)... I would
arrange for logical blocks (probably 4K) to be stored in any of several
physical block sizes, from 1K to 4K (e.g. uncompressed). (I'd include 512
bytes but this is problematic when the kernel only supports 1K blocks.)

++Brandon 

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