From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 27 14:25:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from calis.blacksun.org (Calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44ECC14E9C; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: from localhost (don@localhost) by calis.blacksun.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA35715; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:26:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:26:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Ronald G. Minnich" , Ilia Chipitsine , Chuck Youse , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? In-Reply-To: <199910271938.MAA35962@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When Kirk gets his softupdates/filesystem-checkmarking code working we > are going to be a step up from anything linux could hope to accomplish > in the filesystem arena because we will then be able to reliably dump, > checkmark, AND sanity-check the filesystem on a live (and busy) system. I would really like to see the finished product from Kirk especially given all of the work he has already done. However, what will xfs mean to linux? -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message