How to optimize BSD (SunOS 4) file system (esp. for Big partition)?

[Larry McVoy]

In article <22401 at adm.BRL.MIL> justice at dao.nrc.ca (Gerald Justice) writes:
>I am looking for some advice on optimizing the file systems on a Sun 4/280
>NFS and boot server running SunOS 4.0.1 (soon 4.0.3) used in a scientific
>data analysis environment.  The clients are 3/60's and 4/60's, all diskless.

Hmm.  I can't find the forest for the trees in this posting.  Perhaps if
you told me exactly what it is that you want to go faster I could help you.
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