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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.


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