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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:50:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>, Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com>, Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027114004.66448B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271229520.29073-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:

> > 
> > Read the post again -- they were using soft updates.
> 
> Why is that important?  Soft updates is still far better than an async
> filesystem.  Have you lost files in panics?  I haven't.
> 

Soft updates should get you most of the speed that async updates do.  I have
lost cylinder groups in panics on systems with soft-updates.  (I was using a
very buggy kernel module, so things were *hosed*).  The original poster
hasn't really provided enough information to know what is going on, and what
the performance problem is.


David Scheidt



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