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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!news1.best.com!idiom.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:30:12 GMT Organization: QueerNet Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3331e42e.58953417@nntp.best.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net> <5grhf8$7d6$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gs1oc$kb2@flea.best.net> Reply-To: rogerk@queernet.org NNTP-Posting-Host: attitude.queernet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37457 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6408 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29317 On 20 Mar 1997 11:04:44 -0800, dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) wrote: > Well, Berkeley LFS is indeed a log file system :-) ... the only reason > lfs is not in the mainstream yet is that it depends on a number of 4.4isms > that were not yet ported. The reason LFS is not in the mainstream yet is that Margo's work indicated that, once you add a flusher, LFS performs dog-slow compared to geometric file systems like VxFS, UFS, and XFS. Logs are useful as caches or in conjunction with special-purpose block I/O schemes (NetApp's WAFL), but essentially a dead issue as a data file system with any write load. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE rogerk@QueerNet.ORG 2215-R Market Street #576 San Francisco, CA 94114 +1 415 ALL-ARFF "There is only one real blasphemy -- the refusal of joy!" -- Paul Rudnick