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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: disk IO
Date: 20 Jul 1995 05:25:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3uj5ej$169@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>what is the disk IO on EIDE drives like with FreeBSD as compared
>against Linux?

I'd say it's pretty good.  Linux doesn't write meta-data out syncronously
like FreeBSD does so it's a little faster there, albeit a lot less safe,
but otherwise they're pretty much on par.

>How stable is the PPP (dialout) -

Very.  I use it all the time.

>and who has the lastest release of the CD rom?

Walnut Creek CDROM has a 2.0.5 CD out.  Send mail to sales@cdrom.com

					Jordan