Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:53:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Donn Miller <hackr_d@yahoo.com> To: Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about LFS? Message-ID: <20010729105303.37639.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B63D5B6.5E0DF631@paradise.net.nz>
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--- Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > Hi, > With all the debate that has gone on lately about FFS vs EXT2 > performance, stability, etc, I decided to try out NetBSD 1.5.1's > LFS. It looks incredibly promising from the few initial tests I've > run on it. As an example, unpacking FreeBSD 4.3's ports tarball on > it takes an incredible 38s on my Celeron 400 w/ 4GB IDE drive. This > contrasts with about 1m09s for both ReiserFS & EXT2FS and about > 6m33s for FFS + SOFTUPDATES. I'm surprised EXT2FS was that much faster than UFS+softupdates. Does LFS use inodes and data blocks like most other unix filesystems? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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