Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:21:58 +1200 From: Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: What about LFS? Message-ID: <3B63D5B6.5E0DF631@paradise.net.nz>
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Hi, With all the debate that has gone on lately about FFS vs EXT2 performance, stability, etc, I decided to try out NetBSD 1.5.1's LFS. It looks incredibly promising from the few initial tests I've run on it. As an example, unpacking FreeBSD 4.3's ports tarball on it takes an incredible 38s on my Celeron 400 w/ 4GB IDE drive. This contrasts with about 1m09s for both ReiserFS & EXT2FS and about 6m33s for FFS + SOFTUPDATES. Not only was the speed incredible but you could just whack reset and the system would mount the LFS filesystem immediately (sometimes with a brief ~3s checkpoint) and continue booting as if nothing had happened. Awesome! Anyway, I'm curious as to why this code was removed from the FreeBSD sources some time ago as it appears to show more that a little promise? Perhaps some reintegration is called for. Cheers, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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