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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>> As far as reading the source, 3687+7io is 3687 read and 7 write.
>
>So, there's one thing which mkdir() does in ffs which is different
>from other sorts of file creation... it tries to put the directory in
>a different cylinder group from the one it's parent lives in..

Hmmm.  Dumb question:  is this intended as a speed optimization or as a
reliability optimization (I can think of explanations for either :-) ).

If speed, is this still meaningful with modern disks?

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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