Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:05:31 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <3B1222EB.61659B97@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105272222250.1907-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" > > I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order > to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching > enabled in any distribution I'm aware of). ;)) AFAIK, ata write caching is enabled by default by the hardware manufacturers. This was not the case originally, but benchmarks spoke louder. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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