From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 17:18: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8098214F71 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA26631; Fri, 21 May 1999 02:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id CAA78781; Fri, 21 May 1999 02:18:01 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 02:18:00 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Jamie Bowden Cc: David Kelly , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <19990521021800.S76043@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199905202050.QAA16666@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:08:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:08:14PM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > :> This is great news. My slowest SGI systems have faster metadata updates > :> than my fastest FreeBSD systems, same disk hardware. > : > :Running soft updates? > > XFS is -FAST- How do you measure the speed of XFS vs FFS? I cannot think of any really decent benchmark without having implementations of both in the same OS, and being certain that they are optimized the same way. Don't the O2s have NVRAM for logging the metadata changes? That'd make a tremendous difference right away... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message