From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 17:48:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3B637B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 17:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp185-bsace7001.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.80.185]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4N0khF94210; Tue, 22 May 2001 17:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B0B089A.AA97F518@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:47:22 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Andresen Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , ccf@master.ndi.net, gordont@bluemtn.net, jkh@osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison References: <200105220411.f4M4BDX101825@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0A8DD5.9A38449B@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Andresen wrote: > > Results: > ufs+softupdates is a little slower than ext2fs+wc for low numbers of > files, but scales better. I wish I had a Reiserfs partition to > test with. Ext2fs is a non-contender. Note, though, that there is some very recent perfomance improvement on very large directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it _might_ have since been committed to stable. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message