Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:49:45 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov <vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: sebesty@cs.elte.hu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmount (Linux) vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <199709161249.UAA04524@vas.tsu.tomsk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912232153.18091I-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at "Sep 12, 97 11:22:02 pm"
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Doug White wrote: > > > > I finally did the port of vmount, a program which using the filesystem > > part of the Linux kernel can mount any filesystems that Linux can. I was > > curious how fast is it. I mount my ZIP disk (a SCSI one) first with vmount > > as a VFAT filesystem then with FreeBSD as a DOS filesystem. At both times > > I copied a 8.2M MP3 file to /dev/null. For vmount it took 15 secs, for > > FreeBSD it took 1minute and 33secs! It means that vmount(/Linux) was SIX > > times faster than the native FreeBSD! How could it happen?! > > vmount defaults to async mounts? Sorry if I misunderstand, but what difference does it make as soon as he copied the file *from* the disk and not *to* the disk? -- Victor Sudakov mailto:vas@obluo.tomsk.su http://www.obluo.tomsk.su/~vas PGP public key: finger vas@obluo.tomsk.su
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