Re: 2.1.89 broken?

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:53:56 +0000 (GMT/BST)


On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> I would be interested though, in the partition layout of
> the people who saw worse/better performance:
> begin end
> worse: data sys data swap
> better: data swap sys data
> ???

That reminds me: I generally partition as root-swap-var but it
would be kind of nice to have root as a grows-down filesystem
so that data is clustered in the middle of the drive with free
space on the edges. Maybe an fs flag that causes the fs allocation
to go backwards or a partition type that tells the block device
code to invert the block number sequence? Any takers?

Mike

-- 
..----------------------------------------------------------------------.
|  Mike Jagdis                  |  Internet:  mailto:mike@roan.co.uk   |
|  Roan Technology Ltd.         |                                      |
|  54A Peach Street, Wokingham  |  Telephone:  +44 118 989 0403        |
|  RG40 1XG, ENGLAND            |  Fax:        +44 118 989 1195        |
`----------------------------------------------------------------------'

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu