Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:14:45 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= <mihai.dontu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4 Message-ID: <201002090114.46167.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <201002082219.02103.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> References: <4B6ED119.2060308@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> <201002081154.26064.pieter@service2media.com> <201002082219.02103.mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
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On Monday 08 February 2010 21:19:01 Mihai Don=C8=9Bu wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 12:54:26 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > > Even deleting a large file off that raid array I can > > > see a difference, prior to reformatting, i deleted a 190GB file off t= he > > > raid, under UFS the delete took quite some time (well over 10 seconds= ), > > > under ext4 the deletion of the same size file took about 3 seconds. > > > > File deletion speed is relevant how? > > It can be, depending on the workload. I (as a Linux user) moved from ext3 > to xfs, ignoring the warnings about file deletion [being slow]. Now I _ki= nd > of_ regret it. Seems I have more than one program on my laptop that delet= es > files (kmail's email-expiration thing comes to mind). I also work on a > project that creates large log files an deletes them (periodically). When > all these programs meet, I go for a coffee. :) I agree that file deletion speed can be important in normal usage scenarios= =2E=20 However my question was asked in the context of an FTP up or download, whic= h=20 does not involve deleting files. :-) =2D- Pieter de Goeje
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