From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 3: 2:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A3737B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 48160 invoked by uid 100); 7 Apr 2001 10:02:27 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15054.58803.855456.901387@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 05:02:27 -0500 To: John Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how can you say ufs is faster? In-Reply-To: <32738018@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John types: > In order to compare like with like, set the ufs in fstab to async. This is > enabled automatically on linux systems but not on freebsd (as far as I > remember). You do it like this: > [...] > I beleive there is a small but non-zero risk of data loss in certain > situations with this setting, but I have been using it since 2.2.8 and > haven't had a problem. Gee, I think you just made Ted's point about the Linux developers. They've traded system integrity away for performance, which in my mind is a bad trade. FreeBSD lets you make the choice, and defaults to the more reliable of the two. In the spirit of honesty, I understand that Linux now has file system options available that are designed to be reliable. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message