From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 27 22:43:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from guldan.demon.nl (cc66986-a.assen1.dr.nl.home.com [213.51.67.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2AB37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from robert@localhost) by guldan.demon.nl (8.11.6/102.1.0B) id fAS6hIJ79362; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:43:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@guldan.demon.nl) X-Authentication-Warning: thorin.guldan.demon.nl: robert set sender to freebsd@guldan.demon.nl using -f Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:43:18 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_Blacqui=E8re?= To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <20011128074318.G11813@thorin.guldan.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:59:08PM +1030 X-Disclaimer: running FreeBSD on a Toshiba. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:59:08PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >=20 > On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: > > 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz) > > =20 > > Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone. > > This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la=20 > > linux vs FreeBSD. > > =20 > > 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. >=20 > 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.=20 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. >=20 > Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. > (man ata) >=20 > --- > 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 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message --=20 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! --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --cPi+lWm09sJ+d57q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message