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Buffers are still device specific to the best of my knowledge. However, you won't need to allocate as many buffers as you suggest (1000 – 1500). Rather, a smaller number of buffers does quite well (in the 100 to 200 range). The file system itself won't spend its time caching multisector reads (since that would impose an extra copy). It will cache single sector reads (such as directory and file header fetches…exactly the kind of intelligent cache management we developed with FaccII). And…there's no way to have the file system give back buffers. (That was another feature of FaccII).