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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2001 03:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Donn Miller <hackr_d@yahoo.com>
To:        Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What about LFS?
Message-ID:  <20010729105303.37639.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B63D5B6.5E0DF631@paradise.net.nz>

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--- Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> 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?

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