From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 13 4:33:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BC937B401; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7526F43E6E; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18BwhZ-000206-08; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:33:01 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[217.83.22.193]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18BwhL-0wnAJcC; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:32:47 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gADCWcqu003401; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:32:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gADCX1dh001822; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:33:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:33:01 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Bruce Evans Cc: plusik@pohoda.cz, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seeking help to rewrite the msdos filesystem Message-Id: <20021113133301.767d8a4d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20021113221729.N381-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021113221729.N381-100000@gamplex.bde.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:17:53 +1100 (EST) Bruce Evans wrote: > My times are with some small improvements which I think don't affect > the tests much (they affect latency more than throughput). With lots > of small files (smaller than the block size), clustering doesn't makes > even less difference; however, msdosfs doesn't support soft updates > or async mounts so it it is about as slow as plain ffs (in my test of > writing 1000 files of size 512, msdosfs is actually only 5 times slower > than ffs with soft updates or async; plain ffs is about 7.5 times slower). mtools feels faster (yes, no measurement, pure subjective observation). Bye, Alexander. -- If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message