[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:48:11 UTC, JF Mezei 
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Interesting. So whenever anyone accesses a directory, this triggers an
> in-memory search of the list of mount points to see if there is a match?

That makes it sound bad, but of course directories are cached in memory 
(and index by i-number and filesystem) anyway, so it's just like a 
locked down cache copy.

> Do systems with heavy activity tend to mount disks with the most
> activity first to reduce average search time ? or does the in-kernel
> structures gets sorted in some way, and the order in whic you mount them
> becomes irrelevant ?

Implementation dependent I guess.

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Bob Eager