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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD Filesystems Date: 31 Jul 1995 20:03:58 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3vjcve$mah@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <1995Jul26.123455.28242@lssec.bt.co.uk> <MICHAELV.95Jul29005359@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3ve9jk$11b8@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <MICHAELV.95Jul30182230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <MICHAELV.95Jul30182230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <3ve9jk$11b8@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> ralf@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Baechle) writes: > > I found ext2fs MUCH faster due to it's > asynchronous updates of the fs meta information for that case. > >This has nothing to do with the filesystem. NetBSD (and I believe >FreeBSD) supports a flag that will let you mount the filesystem >asynchronously (wrt metadata writes). However, it is not the default, >and most unix-seasoned people consider it just asking for trouble. It is asking for trouble. If you really need fast writes on lots of small files (i.e., for a news filesystem or something like that) the proper thing is to use the log filesystem or something similar. Is LFS working in NetBSD? cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.