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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 21:57:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, 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.3.96.990520215619.26546f-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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.

irix doesn't ship with UFS anymore?

> Don't the O2s have NVRAM for logging the metadata changes?  That'd
> make a tremendous difference right away...

Are you aware of any board you can get for PCs that provide something
like this?

thanks,
-Alfred



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