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- From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot)
- Subject: Re: strange behavior(?)
- Message-ID: <BzoL9v.Fv1@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1992Dec22.162113.22648@udel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:03:30 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- Rory <cfctech%opusnet%opus@ph.gmr.com> writes:
-
- >Hello all!
-
- >Can someone fill me on on why ls has this behavior? I'm using Minix 1.5.10.
- > If more than 5 partitions are mounted, "ls -l" will "stumble"
- > every time it comes to a file with a different owner or group.
-
- With five mounted partitions your block cache becomes crowded with bit
- map blocks. Each time ls has to print another user name it calls
- getpwnam(3), which reads /etc/passwd, that is no longer in the cache...
-
- >I'm getting a little frusterated with the long delays in ls when trying to
- >upgrade to 1.6.23. (I know, just don't mount the extra partitions... but that
- >kind of defeats the ability to access what I want when I want -- which is
- >often.)
-
- Build user/group name caching into ls. With a little bit of luck it
- will grow to a size that the old compiler will choke on more reliably.
-
- (I do hope I got that/which correct a few lines back, I still don't know
- the difference. (Dutch only has one word for it (ignoring gender)).
- Anyone got a good rule? One they use to teach the kiddies?)
- --
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
- Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
-