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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) 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" Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 28 Mar 1997 05:31:35 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5hfl3n$a3t@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5he3pp$8ms$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <5hfh2l$i13@flea.best.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37860 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6479 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29446 Matt Dillon (dillon@flea.best.net) wrote: : I didn't even notice that :-) A 200 MHz PPro (P6) is over twice as fast : as a 133 MHz pentium (P5). XFS will still beat out a normally mounted : ffs filesystem in terms of file creates/deletes though. It will not : beat out an async-mounted ffs filesystem, however, which means that : once ordered block I/O is put into FreeBSD, you can kiss goodbye : to that statistic. File lookups under XFS will be the only thing : left that it can boast about. This is a significant, but not : overpowering, feature. You don't think that having a log based file system is a win? I happen to like it a lot. And comparing some future feature in FreeBSD to a feature that XFS has done better for 5 years is hardly apples to apples. You think the XFS boys are sitting on their thumbs? I can assure you they aren't and that they are on to more interesting problems such as failover, cluster based XFS, etc. I'm an old time file system guy, an FFS bigot from way back. In fact, I got up at Usenix and defended FFS when Margo or whoever was doing the LFS talk. But let's be fair - XFS is lightyears beyond FFS. Lightyears. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804