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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:33:20 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910272118130.390-101000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>

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Well, guys, listen :-)

I and my friends mentioned that "FreeBSD + ffs" is often slower
(THAT slower) than "Linux + ext2" for number of tasks:
rm, find, tar ... for IDE & SCSI disks.

I didn't try things like "FreeBSD + ext2" or "Linux + ffs".

I attached here results of the test I performed. For test I "gunzip"ped
FreeBSD ports collection, in attachment You can find "scripted" output of 
"# time sh install.sh" for both systems. Also there are "dmesg" outputs.

machine was THE SAME: read "dmesg",

FreeBSD-3.3 + softupdates + "# tunefs -o time" + "flags 0xb0ffb0ff"
          (kernel was compiled with "-O2")
Linux - RedHat-6.0 with out_of_box_kernel, just 
       "# hdparm -d 1 -c 3 -m 16 /dev/hda", read "hdparm" output...

even as non-native English speaker I know few other other words which
begin with "f" :-) 
is "fast" the propriate one for "ffs" ?

Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)

 Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)

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