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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 20:13:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        <ccf@master.ndi.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: technical comparison
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105212009460.76720-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010521153705K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> > c) A filesystem that will be fast in light of tens of thousands of
> >    files in a single directory (maybe even hundreds of thousands)
>
> I think we can more than hold our own with UFS + soft updates.  This
> is another area where you need to get hard numbers from the Linux
> folks.  I think your assumption that "Linux handles this effectively"
> is flawed and I'd like to see hard numbers which prove otherwise;
> you should demand no less.

Also point out the reliability factor here which is a bit harder to point
to a magic number and "See, we *are* better!" ext2 runs async by default
which can lead to nasty filesystem corruption in the event of a power
loss. With softupdates, the filesystem metadata will always be in sync and
uncorrupted (barring media failure of course).

-gordon


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