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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ?
Date: 4 Aug 1995 01:28:32 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com> <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com> <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu>
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In article <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu>, Dave Barr <barr@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>Linux's ext2 is faster than *BSD FFS, especially in the areas that
>count with respect to news (directory updates and file creation).
I thought this is mostly do to the asynchronous updates of
directory metadata. That sounds a little too risky to run on a busy
news server...
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org