On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Curt Sampson wrote:

> 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.

As a compromise, can we at least make ffs deal with a partial track or
cylinder at the end? Right now it complains, and I gather that the space
which would be in a partial fraction at the end is lost. Though it's not
much space, it seems silly to have to admit we can't use a whole disk,
just because our file system is a teenager. :-)

Take care,

Bill