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From: "Steve Galle" <steveg@wavefront.wti.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 09:57:08 -0800
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Subject: mfs file system speed
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Hi all. I just took the time to mount /tmp as an mfs file system, and have
made some interesting measurements. It seems that on my machine (a 486DX4/100)
writes to a mfs file system are slower than writes to a real file system. I
made the changes to my file system after hearing that access to the mfs files
should be faster. A 26 meg file took 23 seconds to write to /, and over a
minute
to write to the mfs partition. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!
-Steve Galle
steveg@wavefront.wti.com