From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 11 17: 3:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bard.barchord.com (H97.C194.tor.velocet.net [216.138.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5562137B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 17:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbt@barchord.com) Received: (qmail 97930 invoked by uid 0); 12 May 2001 00:02:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jester) (192.168.0.22) by bard.barchord.com with SMTP; 12 May 2001 00:02:59 -0000 Message-ID: <083a01c0da76$e81b1920$2205010a@jester> From: "Rod Taylor" To: References: <20010511151056.J15049-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> <3AFC7509.E0DAFE66@cvzoom.net> Subject: Re: fat32 slower than dogshit? Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:03:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That said, it's been thought that Fat32 could actually help programs like Postgres which currently fight with the caching abilities of the UFS code in order to make it transaction safe -- and slows it down. Very simple studies showed that fat32 over ext2 was a 20% speed increase for the WAL log. So... it is useful -- in it's simplicity. -- Rod Taylor There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donn Miller" To: "Lamont Granquist" Cc: Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: fat32 slower than dogshit? > Lamont Granquist wrote: > > > > Well, i think it is, i'm actually not too sure exactly how fast dogshit is > > in the first place. But in doing a simple untar on a fat32 partition > > using both 4-stable a couple days after release and a recently updated > > 4-stable as of yesterday (5/10) it goes about 20-30 times slower than an > > untar on a UFS partition. > > That sounds about right. This is one of many reasons I don't run WinDOS > anymore. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message