From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 08:46:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA11298 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA11293 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:46:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15115(15)>; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:45:24 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29614; Wed, 7 Feb 96 11:45:10 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04991; Wed, 7 Feb 96 11:45:08 EST Message-Id: <9602071645.AA04991@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Robert Nordier Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAT filesystem performance In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 13:16:58 PST." <199602052117.XAA00586@eac.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:45:06 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Maybe caching is a big win... It can't hurt with readonly file systems... I found (on linux) doing iozone I got about the same performance from msdos and ext2, doing an ls on ghostscript gave me time for a coffee break on msdos... -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom