Awe13.115 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!npois!houxi!houxd!houxc!houxb!houxa!houxe!lime!we13!rjk Wed Jan 13 19:47:43 1982 UNIX internals question On internal UNIX 3.0 & 4.0 the first write to a newly mounted filesystem causes a delay of 10-20 seconds, depending on system load. This may be happening on other versions and vintages too. What gives here? Surely it can't take that long for an iget to return block pointers and the like! Is there some free-block verification going on? Is each inode being tested for allocation? For my own curiousity, I would like to know the scenario going on here. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.