Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:43:18 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_Blacqui=E8re?= <freebsd@guldan.demon.nl> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <20011128074318.G11813@thorin.guldan.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:59:08PM %2B1030 References: <m1lmgrzfzo.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:59:08PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: > > 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz) > > > > Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone. > > This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la > > linux vs FreeBSD. > > > > I suspect what I see is the result of poor or misguided configs on my > > part but have no clue what things to look at. > > Turn softupdates on. > (man tunefs) As far as i know linux ext2fs is an async filesystem which is faster but lacks any security over an power failure or other system crashes. FreeBSD uses default no fs speedups, you can turn softupdates on an mount the file systems async. This will speedup any disc access with a multiple or so. But in case of an error/crash more difficult and loss of data could be result of this. There are some nice doc's about freebsd's filesystems and tunings. > > Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. > (man ata) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? OpenBSD: He guys you left some holes out there! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwEh4UACgkQ1ODVtOXCG4g/CgCfcsZxCAWsPM0HYBQCJvX7+rmB dksAn0oK7Rwcwei0pY9b6HQZutZKXL6h =MUZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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