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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 6 Feb 1997 17:51:35 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5dd5n7$72n@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82682 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2322 craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) wrote: > To tell you the truth, I've never noticed subjectively any speed > difference between the two under negligible load. By stopwatch > I'm sure one leads the other by some negligible amount on most > tasks. Can you feel the difference? I think this argument most often arises out of the different default filesystem behaviour. Sure, it's noticeable if you do a large rm -r, or tarring off a tape that creates numerous small files. OTOH, it's a well-known attitude that most of the FreeBSD hackers vote for keeping the current default of sync metadata writes (and we don't need to create *that* discussion here again), so we won't change it. I'm often temporarily switching to async for a large rm operation myself, and run my less important filesystems this way by default. Still, i don't wanna see it being the default. (Btw., using async metadata updates drastically sped up the installation.) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j