Subject: Re: msdosfs performance problem
To: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/27/2005 12:29:22
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Salut,

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:23:02AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> I recently noticed that msdosfs reads from the disk when
> you write to it. The number of blocks read is almost the
> same as the number of blocks written.

That may be partially related to fatfs's weird cluster mapping
algorithm.

> If that is right, how do other filesystems avoid this problem?

They just don't have that stupid mapping.

			    Tonnerre

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