From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 8 19:49:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DFB155B3 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11vua3-000Nvt-00; Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:49:23 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:18 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Sean-Paul Rees Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFS Speed In-Reply-To: <384F1E08.F88A4528@dreamfire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > I have a MFS mounted at /tmp, at 32MB. Is it really faster than regular > disks? I haven't really seen any improvement, and I'm not sure if I am > doing it right. > > In /etc/fstab, I have: > /dev/da1s1f none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da1s1f /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,async 0 0 > > /dev/da1s1f is a 32MB disklabel on a 9.1GB UltraWide (40MB/sec) drive. Well, if you don't have extra RAM, mfs will no faster than regular disk, because it will be regular disk. > Cheers, > Sean Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message