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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share?
Date: 5 Oct 1996 15:07:08 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

> =The shared version using Linux' UFS support, or a `vn' device has
> =certainly more merit.
> 
> How big is the performance hit for having to go through the linux-fs
> and vn-layers code every time? Thanks!

Why do you ask me?  I don't have Linux, nor do i have an ext2fs handy.

Measure it if you are interested.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)