From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 19:31:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2221314C4A; Thu, 20 May 1999 19:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA06123; Thu, 20 May 1999 21:57:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:57:25 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Jamie Bowden , 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. irix doesn't ship with UFS anymore? > Don't the O2s have NVRAM for logging the metadata changes? That'd > make a tremendous difference right away... Are you aware of any board you can get for PCs that provide something like this? thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message