From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190703260129kd379d3cm7a554f77bc24f7f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:29:19 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <775b8d190703260040i303bd0f2wbd69cd2278f60bdd@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 314b724a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 yeah well i chose O(1) over O(n) because n is getting really big. brucee On 3/26/07, Charles Forsyth wrote: > several other people have made helpful suggestions about > coping with the time to format, but i thought i'd include > a reminder to ensure dma and rwm are switched on. > that might require editing the switch cases in sdata.c(?). > that upgrades the original PC controller scheme to work nearly as well as an RL02. > the few times i've formatted venti partitions, i've found that > made a big difference to the elapsed time, in the sense that i > went from `how many days will this take??' to `not too bad'. >