Tuning information for ISC 386/ix

Dick Dunn rcd at ico.ISC.COM
Thu Sep 28 01:48:52 AEST 1989


johnl at esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes about the 386/ix
Fast File System, among other things that:

> A nice thing about this scheme is that the format of an unmounted disk
> remains exactly the same as AT&T's SysV/386, so you can carry file systems
> back and forth.

In fact, you can take a disk from an AT&T system to a 386/ix system and
mount it, then unmount it to clean up the free list into more usable
order!  (Of course, it would make more sense just to run 386/ix.:-)
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