The Problem: Poor Performance

The problem with the file system mentioned in the last lesson was that performance was terrible. As measured by Kirk McKusick and his colleagues at Berkeley“A Fast File System for UNIX” by Marshall K. McKusick, William N. Joy, Sam J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry. ACM TOCS, 2:3, August 1984. McKusick was recently honored with the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson award for his contributions to file systems, much of which was based on ...