From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 00:15:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C894106568B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (mx2.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69378FC16 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl (nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl [130.89.160.140]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id o190Eko2027627; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:14:46 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:14:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B6ED119.2060308@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> <201002081154.26064.pieter@service2media.com> <201002082219.02103.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002082219.02103.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201002090114.46167.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact icts.servicedesk@utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= Subject: Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:15:14 -0000 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