Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:58:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990520204941.10419B-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <19990521021800.S76043@bitbox.follo.net>
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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
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