From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 21 4:35:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B556114FF7 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 04:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA23862; Fri, 21 May 1999 13:35:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA85489; Fri, 21 May 1999 13:35:18 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:35:18 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jamie Bowden , David Kelly , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <19990521133518.X76043@bitbox.follo.net> References: <19990521021800.S76043@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:57:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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