From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 2:40:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.prism.co.za (exchange.prism.co.za [196.34.63.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417F31553D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org) Received: from littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (196.34.63.201 [196.34.63.201]) by exchange.prism.co.za with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id CKVJLKYZ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:41:54 +0200 Received: by littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9C77093; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:41:32 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:41:29 +0200 From: Alwyn Schoeman To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS vs ext2fs (Was: Re: Not enough information) Message-ID: <20000106124112.D8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> References: <20000106113309.B8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 03:56:44PM +0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wasn't necessary talking about performance, there's more to a filesystem than just that. I also wasn't comparing it to ext2fs, although in 5 years of using ext2fs I haven't had a filesystem messed up so badly that I lost data. When ext3fs, xfs and reiserfs comes into their own, performance comparisons will be a moot point anyway. On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 03:56:44PM +0600, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > Recently FreeBSD's not so great filesystem got corrupted. Guess what got damaged? Package information, so now I can't get any information on installed packages.UPgrading ports, I mean installed ports? Probably the only point its got going > > Bullsh*t! FFS totally outperforms ext2fs, and I've never heard any > opposite statements. > > ./danfe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message