From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 16:30:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16161 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16152 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23680; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:30:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710052330.QAA23680@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 23:30:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971004210211.32240@klemm.gtn.com> from "Andreas Klemm" at Oct 4, 97 09:02:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Or did you compare things like the speed of rm -rf on a large > directory tree without recognizing, that FreeBSD doesn't do > asynchronous I/O to a file system as default ?! > > Please facts here. Sure. No problem. Repeat the test ten times. For five of them, switch the machine off halfway through. Verify that the last file it said it removed was in fact the same or only one file away from the last file actually removed. Who else has screwed up deleteing, and hit the power to save their bacon? I'm not proud: I admit doing it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.