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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1262 comp.os.linux:56391 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd References: <2CB12A8D.17397@news.service.uci.edu> <MYCROFT.93Oct6054959@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <29klpf$8ae@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 13:49:43 GMT Message-ID: <1993Oct16.134943.12301@kf8nh.wariat.org> Distribution: inet Lines: 20 In article <HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) writes: >In article <29klpf$8ae@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes: > >for this and therefore risks serious file system corruption should the >... > A measly 10 to 20 times faster. This is one thing makes Linux "feel" > >Personally, I would prefer that there would be per-filesystem option to set >whether you wish file system structure updates done synchronously. Stephen Tweedie said he was working on that for the next ext2 release. For the other filesystems it's up to the maintainers. Of course, it is contrariwise arguable that the OS isn't *supposed* to crash... :-) :-) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca