Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:49:29 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@freebsd.dk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <200103151949.f2FJnVF13620@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:04:23 CST." <200103140404.f2E44Ne16415@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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In message <200103140404.f2E44Ne16415@grumpy.dyndns.org>, David Kelly writes: > Pete French writes: > > All very interesting, but a small point has been forgotten > > hasnt it ? The way I read this thread is that until recentlly > > write-caching was enabled by default and has now been disabled (hence > > the original obseravtion of disc performance dropping). > > > > I havent noticed that FreeBSD has a bad reputation for loss of data > > in the event of am power outage, and my own experience backs this up. > > As so many people appear to have been running it this way by default until > > now you might have though that if it were a serious problem in reality then > > people would have noticed by now ? > > Well, I am an ex-Linux user who got fed up with Linux trashing my disk 3 > times one week. Each time (kernel panics) the damage was bad enough fsck > (e2fsck?) deleted a lot of critical files making a wipe/reinstall the > fastest way back to a running system. This was shortly after the release > of FreeBSD 2.0.0. Remember it well because that is when I became a > FreeBSD user. Hmm, probably 6 years ago this month. That's the same reason I switched from Linux to FreeBSD 2.0.5 5 or 6 years ago. > Have watched Linux from "outside" since then. Noticed I was not the > only one losing data. From what I've seen the Linux solution was not to > to fix a faulty design but to hack it until it doesn't lose as much. > > Linux was/is very proud of their ext2fs speed. Clearly at the expense of > reliability. Oddly enough that machine got 600k Bytes/sec thruput on > Linux, but 900k Bytes/sec on FreeBSD 2.0.0-RELEASE. 240 MB Western > Digital IDE drive. > > IMO the most reliable settings are the correct thing to do in spite of > simpleminded magazine authors who will "do a shootout" of Linux vs. > FreeBSD using only the stock settings. This is one of the three big reasons we (at our shop) are migrating our infrastructure servers (kerberos, console, file, web, firewall/proxy, etc.) from Linux to FreeBSD. As Linux (specifically RedHat) comes with more toys, bells and whistles, Linux will remain our desktop standard, not to mention the sure-to-be-lost political battle. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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