From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 29 3:53: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web14703.mail.yahoo.com (web14703.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B916137B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hackr_d@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010729105303.37639.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.67.120.228] by web14703.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:53:03 PDT Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:53:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Donn Miller Subject: Re: What about LFS? To: Mark Ibell , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3B63D5B6.5E0DF631@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Mark Ibell wrote: > 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. I'm surprised EXT2FS was that much faster than UFS+softupdates. Does LFS use inodes and data blocks like most other unix filesystems? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message