On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:13:48AM -0500, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> I thought I read somewhere that freebsd has a file system
> designed to work well with a lot of small files. Is this, or
> something similar, available in netbsd?

Well, their FFS filesystem isn't designed differently; it's based on the
same code as ours. One difference is that they have incorporated the
soft update code from Kirk McKusick, which, when enabled, does
help for lots of small files.

The soft update code was ported to NetBSD a while ago, but there
are still some bugs left there, and we need someone who has
time to work on it. I did the port, but can't work on it much anymore
now.

- Frank