Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:59:29 -0400 From: Robert Sexton <robert@kudra.com> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? Message-ID: <19991027235929.C39061@tabby.kudra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910280706180.258-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>; from Ilia Chipitsine on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:08:19AM %2B0600 References: <19991027155930.A36190@tabby.kudra.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910280706180.258-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
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I don't know waht really happened, but the originally quoted numbers sound fishy to me. There may well be some other problem. I ran two tests on my rather modest machine (P166, 64mb, UW Scsi Drives, 3.3-Stable). I have soft updates turned on. (correctly, I might add :-) Unpacking the ports file from a tarball: 6:30 Creating a ports dir tarfile: 4:30 The filesystems in question were about 800 megs, created with default settings. I'd say thats pretty acceptable performance. -- Robert Sexton - robert@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA Getting to Know your friends, Part VIII: "Jerry is a little too Cerebral for me. But then again, he likes Twinkies." Read the Newton FAQ! <http://www.kudra.com/newton/newton-faq>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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