From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 11 23:42:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C077337B43E for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 23:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id HAA18957; Sat, 12 May 2001 07:43:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:43:47 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Lamont Granquist Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fat32 slower than dogshit? Message-ID: <20010512074346.B18681@irrelevant.org> References: <061901c0da66$8da39040$931576d8@inethouston.net> <20010511151056.J15049-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010511151056.J15049-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0700, Lamont Granquist wrote: > > Well, i think it is, i'm actually not too sure exactly how fast dogshit is > in the first place. But in doing a simple untar on a fat32 partition > using both 4-stable a couple days after release and a recently updated > 4-stable as of yesterday (5/10) it goes about 20-30 times slower than an > untar on a UFS partition. Now i know fat32 is supposed to be slower than > UFS, but this seems a little bit rediculous. Does this sound like a known > problem? If someone wants more information I can probably dig down and > get it if I know what you want... I noticed that the msdos filesystem got very slow myself a while back, for me turning the write cache (ata(4)) back on helped speed things back up again, it's not the ideal solution, but it worked for me. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message