Subject: Re: a thought about FFS parameters & disk performance
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/1997 14:03:33
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> It is unclear whether or not re-designing FFS to understand disks with
> variable numbers of sectors per track would change performance....

I don't see much point, since there's generally no way to get the
information from the disk on how many sectors each track really
has.

cjs

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