Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:35:18 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <19990521133518.X76043@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990520215619.26546f-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:57:25PM -0500 References: <19990521021800.S76043@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990520215619.26546f-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:57:25PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: >> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:08:14PM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: >>>>> This is great news. My slowest SGI systems have faster metadata updates >>>>> than my fastest FreeBSD systems, same disk hardware. >>>> >>>> Running soft updates? >>> >>> XFS is -FAST- >> >> How do you measure the speed of XFS vs FFS? I cannot think of any >> really decent benchmark without having implementations of both in the >> same OS, and being certain that they are optimized the same way. > > irix doesn't ship with UFS anymore? Only without soft updates. As I said, you need to be certain of how they are optimized... > > Don't the O2s have NVRAM for logging the metadata changes? That'd > > make a tremendous difference right away... > > Are you aware of any board you can get for PCs that provide something > like this? "Maybe." I've tried to contact some companies that advertise boards like this, but have been unable to get a price quote without stating exactly what I am doing with it and signing some sort of NDA (which I refused), which lead me to suspect it is vapourware. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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