From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 17:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [208.243.107.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC25F15316; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1C3114040; Thu, 20 May 1999 20:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B70C9A5C; Thu, 20 May 1999 20:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:58:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Eivind Eklund Cc: David Kelly , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? In-Reply-To: <19990521021800.S76043@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: :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... XFS on an indy R4600/133mhz with ultra-narrow drives on a scsi2-fast controller did better than my K6/233mhz with AHA-2940UW with UW drives for large directory reads and writes. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message