From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 23:22:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08457 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA08452 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA18143; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:22:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Zoltan Sebestyen cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: vmount (Linux) vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > Hi, > > I finally did the port of vmount, a program which using the filesystem > part of the Linux kernel can mount any filesystems that Linux can. I was > curious how fast is it. I mount my ZIP disk (a SCSI one) first with vmount > as a VFAT filesystem then with FreeBSD as a DOS filesystem. At both times > I copied a 8.2M MP3 file to /dev/null. For vmount it took 15 secs, for > FreeBSD it took 1minute and 33secs! It means that vmount(/Linux) was SIX > times faster than the native FreeBSD! How could it happen?! vmount defaults to async mounts? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo