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Subject: MFS speed
From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Date: 30 Jul 1996 23:38:59 +0200
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Hello,

On an asynchronously mounted filesystem, and on MFS, I created 1000
files as a test for measuring the speed.

I was surprised to see that it makes absolutely no
difference. Aparently asynchronously mounting means also that 100%
stays in buffer and does not go to disk. (I thought that some metadata
might go to disk still synchronously, thus MFS being faster in such
cases). 

So is there any advantage in using MFS compared to an asynchronously
mounted regular filesystem?