From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 21:09:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA12087 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (info.tsu.tomsk.su [194.226.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA11869 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id EAA03910; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 04:31:43 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA04524; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:49:46 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov Message-Id: <199709161249.UAA04524@vas.tsu.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: vmount (Linux) vs. FreeBSD To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:49:45 +0800 (TSD) Cc: sebesty@cs.elte.hu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at "Sep 12, 97 11:22:02 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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