Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:22:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vmount (Linux) vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912232153.18091I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970908101320.12560B-100000@neumann.cs.elte.hu>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > Hi, > > I finally did the port of vmount, a program which using the filesystem > part of the Linux kernel can mount any filesystems that Linux can. I was > curious how fast is it. I mount my ZIP disk (a SCSI one) first with vmount > as a VFAT filesystem then with FreeBSD as a DOS filesystem. At both times > I copied a 8.2M MP3 file to /dev/null. For vmount it took 15 secs, for > FreeBSD it took 1minute and 33secs! It means that vmount(/Linux) was SIX > times faster than the native FreeBSD! How could it happen?! vmount defaults to async mounts? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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