Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:16:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com> Cc: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271216060.94542-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271158590.1849-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com>
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Youse wrote: > One of the biggest reasons for the difference: FreeBSD, by default, > performs _synchronous_ metadata updates, and Linux performs asynchronous > metadata updates. > > It's definitely a bit slower, but the payoff is in reliability. I have > seen more than one [production!] Linux machine completely trash its > filesystems because the implementors decided that their "NT-killer" must > have good performance at the expense of serious, production-quality > reliability. Read the post again -- they were using soft updates. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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