PF> HPFS386 really won't do anything for your local machine (except for
 PF> security) -- its performance features are for remote
 PF> users (in many cases, unlike regular hpfs,  hpfs386
 PF> can serv a network request at ring 0, without having
 PF> to switch up to ring 3).

I still don't agree with your assessment on this for computers with lots of
RAM (i.e., 32MB RAM or more) and fast CPU chips (Pentium or faster).  For
instance, a Pentium with 64MB RAM being used for heavy disk I/O can
probably benefit from the larger than 2MB cache size available with
HPFS386.  Also, a bit of benchmarking I did several months ago suggested
that for some tests HPFS386 can be faster (around 30-40% faster) than HPFS
even with the same cache sizes.  This may have something to do with Pentium
optimizations present in HPFS386 versions from LS4.0 and later.  As always,
results will vary from machine to machine and from user to user.


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