>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 07:23:23 -0500
>From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>

>I'm hardly a filesystem performance guru myself...but I do know that
>FFS's idea of optimal block placement and cylinder groups and suchlike
>is rather silly on modern disks with varying sectors per track.

Many modern disks also have RAM caches, which obviate seek,
head-switch, and rotational delay altogether.  I don't know if or how
FFS could take advantage of that, however.
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