From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 2 10:34:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18392 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:34:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA18382 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0y9a2K-00069g-00; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:34:00 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux ? In-Reply-To: <199803021600.LAA13646@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Mar 2, 98 11:00:26 am" To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:34:00 +0200 (SAT) Cc: marcus@vue.co.za X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John S. Dyson wrote: > > Much of the time, when people might say "Linux is faster than FreeBSD", > it is likely a manifestation of the conservative filesystem metadata > update policy of FreeBSD. This is (and don't let nay-sayers try to > convince you otherwise) a carefully considered and wise policy on the > part of the original BSD development group. [ rest of filesystem discussion deleted ] My apologies for posting a somewhat unrelated followup to this thread... Is there any specific reason why ext2fs would be inefficient at handling large files (on the order of 1 meg and upwards to a few hundred megabytes)? We're doing some development which results in very large blobs of binary data being bandied about, and I couldn't help but notice that FreeBSD machines constantly seem to outperform higher specced Linux machines when doing arbitrary file and directory manipulations (moving, removing, etc.) on these large files, or even when merely accessing these files repeatedly. Sometimes the difference is more than an order of magnitude. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message