From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 5: 8:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689D114E19 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 05:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a071.otenet.gr [195.167.115.71]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA12918 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:08:04 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 10710 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Oct 1999 01:03:29 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 28 Oct 1999 04:03:29 +0300 In-Reply-To: Chuck Robey's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:30:52 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <8666zs47q6.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey writes: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > Why is that important? Soft updates is still far better than an async > filesystem. Have you lost files in panics? I haven't. Since you do not define in which OS this last question applies, the answer is definitely "yes". That is exactly how I came to FreeBSD about a month or so ago. X11 managed to bring my kernel to it's knees. Linux paniced and managed to fsck everything on the disk to the never-never land when it came back up. With FreeBSD now... I have had a few power-failures bring the machine down, if that counts for a "crash", and nothing happened to my files. Seems there is a basic difference somewhere in between. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message