Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:47:05 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <199610020848.BAA21555@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199610020205.TAA03025@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 1, 96 07:05:11 pm
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said: > > > > According to Michael Hancock: [...] > > VxFS isn't dog slow. > > VxFS and FFS are within 5% of the same speed on UnixWare, assuming you > set your default block size for FFS to 8k (it defaults to 4k, apparently > so that VXFS would look good). Which way the 5% goes depends on the > operations. If you have ever worked on the VXFS source code (I did > at USL), you will already know that it has piece of FFS in it; the > directory entry management code is almost pure FFS, for instance. [...] Hmmm, well, I'll see how fast HP's VxFS is during the next week or so... testing out a RAID5 Fast-Wide Differential SCSI unit at work under 10.01. Testing today was rather disappointing: fscat -F vxfs only came in at 4MB/s across a 4GB partition. Darren
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