[openbeos] Re: File system
- From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:40:30 -0300 (BRT)
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Clay Vincent Schentrup wrote:
> >But why would we do that? What do you think is wrong about BFS that you
> >want addressed? As I said, BFS is *THE* user-oriented FS.
>
> In one of the previous emails in this list, which I must have deleted,
> someone was discussing at least three things that could be done to BFS to
> improve it. One of them was to not have a static cache size, so that if you
> have lots of RAM, it can use up lots of it to be faster.
Wait. This is not related to the FS but to the disk cache. Under BeOS the
cache has a fixed size and it is a separate entity from the VM. Under
OpenBeOS the cache/vm will be integrated so that will be "fixed".
In other words, this is not BFS' fault.
> I'm no file system designer, so I'm just going by what other said.
I would like to see the other 2 points.
-Bruno
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