From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 27 21: 0:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tabby.kudra.com (gw.kudra.com [199.6.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4573814C85 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@kudra.com) Received: (from robert@localhost) by tabby.kudra.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id XAA39187; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:59:29 -0400 From: Robert Sexton To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? Message-ID: <19991027235929.C39061@tabby.kudra.com> References: <19991027155930.A36190@tabby.kudra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Ilia Chipitsine on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:08:19AM +0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know waht really happened, but the originally quoted numbers sound fishy to me. There may well be some other problem. I ran two tests on my rather modest machine (P166, 64mb, UW Scsi Drives, 3.3-Stable). I have soft updates turned on. (correctly, I might add :-) Unpacking the ports file from a tarball: 6:30 Creating a ports dir tarfile: 4:30 The filesystems in question were about 800 megs, created with default settings. I'd say thats pretty acceptable performance. -- Robert Sexton - robert@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA Getting to Know your friends, Part VIII: "Jerry is a little too Cerebral for me. But then again, he likes Twinkies." Read the Newton FAQ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message