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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest?
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:47:05 +1000 (EST)
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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