File system performance

[Larry Snyder]

rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>Not too surprisingly, we've looked at that a bit.  One answer stands out
>like a sore thumb:  If you're running V.4, *don't* use the old-style s5
>file system unless you really need it.  The BSD-style file system is a far
>better performer.

Yes - but 8K blocks - just think what that would do to your partition
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